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.

A pretty building I'm making, without either bricks or timber. I'm up i' the garret a'ready, and haven't so much as dug the foundation.

Rose unearthed three crystal goblets that almost matched, and even found a tablecloth that hadn't been attacked by moths since its last public appearance.

I like you so much I don't know what to do with it. My heart beats so fast when I know I'm going to see you again.

I'm a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.

So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.

Everybody changes, not just me.

I'm hoping they slow down a little bit with technology, because I'm just trying to keep up.

I don't know; it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know.

The weight is off my shoulders. I don't live in the past anymore. I look forward, instead of back.

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.