Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.

It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head.

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

Impossibility is a log thrown on the fires of love.

Most damning of phrases: He meant well.

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe.

That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.

The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.

we just live to leave .

Envy is a sign that you are being overtaken

And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it.

I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other.

Parents and educators need to establish a culture in which security and clarity of expectations are balanced with the encouragement of playfulness, inquisitiveness and self reliance.

There's nothing like walking out and watching the people get turned on. Nothing in the world could replace it.

The purpose of life is to know yourself, create yourself, experience yourself as Who You Really Are. There is no other reason to do anything.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York.