When the Attorney-General ceased, a buzz arose in the court as if a cloud of great blue-flies were swarming about the prisoner, in anticipation of what he was soon to become.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.

‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

They looked at one another, and their hearts died within them.

What wonderful things dreams are! They can make you be anything you want and take you anyplace in the world.

Living this long's not as wonderful as people think. I mean, you get the same amount of youth as everyone else, but a great big extra helping of being very old and deaf and creaky.

If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.

The only reason to go into business is to make money. You have to work hard at it. If you're not passionate about it, you'll burn out so fast that it is incredible.

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

I'm the mom and the other members are my children

I loved my country, and I hated him.

When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.

I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.

Regret; The saddest word in the English language.