Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

What is it like when you lose someone you love?" Jane asked."You die, too. And you wait around for your body to catch up.

As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.

Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . .

I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.

I was fortunate to become the woman I always wanted to be.

. . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.

I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.

I have no mouth. And I must scream.

When you're dead, it robs life of many of it's pleasures

In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.