We ought always to try to influence others for good.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.

If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery

I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.

It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.

Do you understand the sadness of geography?

I've really enjoyed working together with Apple to help launch their new streaming service. It is really cool to see Apple getting involved.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch; as loving or as horrible.

Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots

Painting is a strange business.

I always thought my mother was so damn cute!

But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

The Left, in a general sense, is very much atomized. We live in highly atomized societies. People are pretty much alone; it's you and your iPad.

A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows.