Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle.

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.

A woman may get to love by degrees—the best fire does not flare up the soonest.

Freedom from a tyrant is easy, but freedom from societal conformity is difficult.

For your next act, please don't pull any rabbits out of my... well, hat."....He licked playfully at her mouth. "And ya can't call my manhood 'rabbit'.

I don't worry about how accurately I convey my personality. I learned early on that it's almost impossible to accurately portray yourself.

What if hamsters fought in the American Revolution?

Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore.

Get out and about. Rather than going to the same gym and doing the same thing, it's a good opportunity to try different things.

Alec Baldwin is so funny.

I don't think there is a city we've been to that someone didn't know who I was. People know who I am before I touch the ball.

The influence of being in New York, made me realize a lot of the ethical and political ideas I want to push or promote are best articulated within an anarchist program.

The goal of this presentation is to impress, rather than inform.