They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

That aspects are within us; and who seems Most kingly is the King.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.

The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.

And as long as you’re making choices unconsciously, you can’t consciously choose to change that ineffective behavior and turn it into productive habits.

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

Agoraphobia was my quirky armor against a gregarious America.

What's the difference between a communist or socialist and a progressive? Revolution or evolution? One requires a gun and the other eats away slowly.

Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.

I'd rather be number one on the worst-dressed list than number two on the best.