Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret…

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

Conceit spoils the finest genius.

...freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.

I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.

life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.

…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.

John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!

Grandfather recently died. He died alone on a trip away from home in a town where no one expected him to be

It's not happening to you, it's happening through you. Check your thoughts and your energetic output for the answers.

I had two thoughts about it. One was I could do that, and the next one was I'll never get to do that.

I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.

Everybody cheats, I just didn't know.

The media is almost entirely about defining the subject, defining the citizen, as one of three things: a consumer, a threat in this new age of surveillance, or as utterly disposable. Excess.

I'm the only president you've got.

I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.

No matter how much you try to pretend and force yourself and maybe fight against love and try to forget or be oblivious to it, there's no way to fight it. I think when it's there, it's there.

So what do you think you're Elvis or something, whatever that don't impress me.