The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.

It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

I won't cry for you, my mascara's too expensive

Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.

The year is always correct, also the month, only the day can be another. But that occurs to me only in the moment of writing it down.

I would rather die now than to live a life of oblivious ease in so sick a world.

The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Meritocracy has nothing to do with who gets in. It's more who you are and where you come from and where you are employed.

I didn't lose my virginity until I was twenty-six. Nineteen vaginally, but twenty-six what my boyfriend calls "the real way".

The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.