This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea that very thing happiness which I have been pursuing all my life and have never yet overtaken.

Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek, Thy crimson moon and azure eye

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

If my heart were not light, I would die.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.

My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.

But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.

A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

[T]he race is long - to finish first, first you must finish.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it

Not being interested in other cultures is the normal state of mankind.

No obstacle is greater than power within you.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

I was on my way to the gym. It was incredible. I was screamin at cars, 'That's me on the radio!

Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.

What a unique opportunity to be in town. I love townies. I value it, so to speak.

Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.

I will never forget Oprah's [Winfrey] major contribution to my success by having me perform on her show (March '91) and introducing me as, "the voice that brought her out of the shower!"