The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

That aspects are within us; and who seems Most kingly is the King.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.

I remember reading 'The Hobbit' on a car trip from Ohio to Mississippi and getting out at a rest-stop in Mississippi and feeling jet-lagged at my return from Middle-earth.

It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion.

The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness.

The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.

All men know their children mean more than life.

Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you . . .

Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.

When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, "Congratulations, you have an actor!"

The truth is, if you're around long enough, you have a story about everyone. But it's best to keep your mouth shut sometimes.