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!

I prefer for 'my world' to have the highest certification of being a faithful representation of the exterior world.

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

The rewards of tomorrow are safely hidden in the belief of never quitting and not giving up on yourself today

At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.

When you're out to get the honey you don't go killing all the bees

You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.

I don't like government, it's just that simple.

It takes great courage and personal strength to hold on to our center during times of great hurt. It takes wisdom to understand that our reactiveness only fans the flames of false drama.

Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.

It doesn't matter one damn bit whether fashion is art or not. You don't question whether an incredible chef is an artist or not-his cakes are delicious and that's all that matters.