There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Some stuff which I do aren't some kind a cheats or this kind a of stuff it's about thinking and it's about how clever am I!

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that.

Trust me, true?" Butch barked a laugh. "Last time you said that i ended up with a vampire cocktail, remember?

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.

You can share your testimony in many ways, by the words you speak, by the example you set, by the manner in which you live your life.

All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.