The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

What we love to do we find time to do.

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

It was almost like I was in the army.

Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.

Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.

Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true.

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think

The only heaven permitted to me is the part-time job heaven.

If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.

true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing

Tatiana and the soldier were having a silence

Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.