The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Those who do not weep, do not see.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.

Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

Middle age is such a low point for well-being

I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.

Writing is the thing that sustains me and keeps me going. It is a form of self-preservation for me.

People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.

You don't need to show off your body to catch a boy's eye. You'd best learn that early on, or you'll be bringing home the worst sort of boy.

I don't really care if they like me or not.

Art has a prophetic role, denouncing the culture it lays bare.

If you give Congress a chance to vote on both sides of an issue, it will always do it.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.