The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

Guilt soon learns to lie.

How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!

Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.

it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.

Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.

What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.

We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.

The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths.

Democrats were quick to point out that President Bush's budget creates a 1 trillion dollar deficit. The White House quickly responded with 'Hey, look over there, it's Saddam Hussein.'

You can judge a country by the way it treats its prisoners, and you can always judge a show by the way it treats people coming on to do these guest shots.

Theres a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.

What has the women’s movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro’s candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.

There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science.