Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.

Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies.

The most generous and merciful in judgment upon the faults of others are always the most free from faults themselves.

God strikes not as an enemy, to destroy; but as a father, to correct.

Everyone has greatness in them! To bring it out, we just have to empower them.

He's soft and strong at the same time

Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want, pooled in the shape of a girl.

I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not excuse I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.

If I had my way, I'd end all wars and poverty. We should all be more aware of what's going on in the world around us and less ignorant.

I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities.

When I get asked, 'what are the differences between Twilight and THG' I'm like, 'Erm, what are the similarities?'

I got a smoke alarm at home, but really it's more like a 9-volt-battery-slowly-drainer.

Donald Trump has to be Donald Trump. And the country will organize itself around who he is.

Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes.