There would be more genuine rejoicing at the discovery of a complete new novel by Jane Austen than any other literary discovery, short of a new major play by Shakespeare.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all.

Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.

Nothing fails like failure

Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?

I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.

The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not.

Every single day you're the result of what you did on the days prior.

Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

I wasnt an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.

Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.

Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced.

Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.