Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels.

Control is an illusion. No one has it. I don't even have it. You can't wish for control you can only learn to play your part in a world where nothing is truly certain. And you do have a part to play.

If you don't want an American flag flying at your school, why do you live in the USA?

I used to say that I wanted to make great art with people I love. Now I have an addendum to that goal: to get things on the air.

I can be in the NFL as long as any other back. I went late in the draft because no one thought I could do it.

You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.

Those activities at which you excel with no effort at all - those are the ones you ought to pursue to the detriment of others.

Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.

Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.

I wanted to be the writer in the room setting depth charges of feeling out the world with my language.You know, I had a very romantic idea about that.But I grew into being a performer.