The men were wild as ourang-outans, and the women fit only to flog cattle.

Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind.

Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.

Cease, man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; Enjoy thy shining hour of sun; We dance along Death's icy brink, But is the dance less full of fun?

One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure.

All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own.

Home is where the books are

Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.

Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

I've got big, big dreams for the future.

They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.

Whatever your personal political feelings are, if you become involved in them publicly you're bound to come out the loser.

Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.

My mantra is: Realize you're going to fail all the time, and accept it. That doesn't mean I'm not frightened of it.

I learned discipline from my father. Not in terms of corporal punishment, but being determined in whatever you do, and sticking with it.

In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.

It takes confidence and guts to intentionally create tension.