They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.

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.

No tree becomes large without smaller trees hoping its branches get cut off.

Only cowards torture women.

Hey, Tracy you army brat, I think it’s for you!

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.

The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.

I want people to feel good about listening to this [Delta Machine] record, to get some kind of peace. It's just got something magical about it.

Every walk that I do, there's obstacles in the way. There's always somebody or something that comes across negative, but I live for that sort of thing.

When you feel in love with an ex, it isn't that you still love him, but that you are simply stuck in the idea of what YOU did wrong.

I realize now that I have made some mistakes. I am willing to accept the consequences of those actions.