Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.

I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

To her, the name of father was another name for love.

Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.

O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

There are no little things. "Little things," so called, are the hinges of the universe.

I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues.

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.

I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.

To those who are given much, much is expected.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Sometimes our heroes let us down.

Do not expect anything from any one.

When you feel that he doesn't value you anymore, this would be the right time to let him go.

I am the unarmed black kid who maybe needed a hand, but instead was given a bullet.

There are always a lot of leading questions and opinions. Of course, our work is creative, and it's subjective.

I have to speak for myself. As far as videos go - casting, the artwork, everything - I'm completely hands-on. You have to be if you want your points across.

I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too.

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.