Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

Don't judge a book by its cover

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!

Don't judge a book by its cover.

Read to find life treasures

It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. Christmas and the others can end up making you sad, because you know you should be happy. But on Halloween you get to become anything that you want to be

Nobody really wants to be alone. People need people.

I am a good model because I have mastered my craft. I have accepted my body, I know it well and I know how to move in front of the camera.

Oh you know me. I have no emotions. I'm a robot. Or a nun. A robot nun.

I saw that worrying had come to nothing and gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.

Beware of those who try to sell you simple answers to complex questions.

To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin

There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life, and that desire is praise worthy.