Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?" "Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

If adrenaline was a catalyst for strength then hope was the catalyst for endurance.

I don't know of any of us that want to see any kind of default happen.

Anybody that's been through a divorce, and I hope it's something people never have to experience, it's the worse thing in the world.

An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be adjustable to too many different ends without altering its nature.

Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.

Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.

There is no greater mistake than to make light of an enemy By making light of an enemy many a kingdom has been lost.

A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us, and which we can love.

Look, Rose. You don't have to keep up with the hard-to-get thing. You already got me.

In short both the things we feel we need and the things available for us to buy depend largely—beyond some point, almost entirely—on the things that others choose to buy.