One suffers in silence so long as one has the strength and when that strength fails one speaks without measuring one's words much.

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.

I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

Conventionality is not morality.

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

It's impossible to walk through solid rock... You have to walk between the molecules that make up the rock.

If education were the same as information, the encyclopedias would be the greatest sages in the world.

Don't aim to be a perfect being

Experiment: Live and love as much as I can, before my particles fall away to wander in stardust.

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.

The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing.

The confidence that we Indians are suddenly infused with while doing something wrong is absolutely commendable.

I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.

God has a place and purpose for you, somewhere for you to be and something for you to do. You never will be happy elsewhere, nor can you please God anywhere but there.