She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.

A woman may get to love by degrees—the best fire does not flare up the soonest.

A pretty building I'm making, without either bricks or timber. I'm up i' the garret a'ready, and haven't so much as dug the foundation.

By empowering women, we empower the nation.

Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.

What's in front of me is what's most interesting.

There are few people who think what a solemn thing it is to be a Christian. I guess there is not a believer in the world who knows what a miracle it is to be kept a believer.

Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse.

A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.

It doesn't take a miracle or a natural disaster to live in the world that you're after, the change is gonna happen to you

Talent is a very potent aphrodisiac. When someone is incredibly gifted, I find them incredibly sexy.

Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.