You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped --

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.

I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

Conventionality is not morality.

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

I find a good cliche very comforting in times of stress." said the Sage.

I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you.

Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.

Sometimes you have to forget and forgive. Forgive them for hurting you and forget that they exist!

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

I'm divorced and I've been to the circus and seen the clowns. This ain't my first rodeo.

Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'.

I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had, had been recognized.