This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Obstinate, headstrong girl!

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Silence then, and the scent of apple trees, and the nightmare sense of grief that comes when a man wakes again to feel a loss he has forgotten in sleep.

All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.

Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.

The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.

I cuss like a sailor; I smoked cigarettes for many years but quit and have never looked back; also, I ride a motorcycle... in Los Angeles... so there ya go.

The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.

I am lucky to be in a profession that is not age dependent.

Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.

When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their flesh...was never intended for human beings, who are naturally herbivores.