Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.

Can the law get blood out of a stone? I haven't any money.

I will continue to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. But I should be thrice a fool if I did it for aught but my own entertainment.

Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour.

If you wish to compare, compare yourself with God's commandment.

Look up on a starry night, and you will see the majesty and power of an infinite Creator.

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.

My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.

Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.

Usually, I get hired because I'm tall.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.