The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones")

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?

Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger, and love makes you happier.

Revive soul, Renew spirit.

Wealth is the byproduct of thoughts. To be wealthy, think of wealth.

Don't panic. Say, Hey, no problem. Run a hand through your hair like the whiteboys do even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

On the road of experience, join in the living day; if there's an answer, it's just that it is that way.

The musicians one day are going to listen to me.

You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance.

My inspiration is love and history.