She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Obstinate, headstrong girl!

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Angry people are not always wise.

To fully communicate with people, you need to find tactics that would interest them

To be big, you have to think big. Don’t limit your imagination.

The doctrine of a soul that outlives the body is anything but righteous, because it necessarily devalues the lives we live on this earth.

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap

My dad and my mom convinced me to go into biomedical engineering because they said astronauts going to Mars will need life support systems.

As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous.

In meditation have a complete focus on light, brightness, spiritual oneness, God, infinity, eternity. You know - silly things.

To live and love is a wonderful thing.

We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.