You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Everything human beings can imagine has been thrown at injustice, and injustice just absorbs it, and enlarges.

Death is not the enemy living in constant fear of it is.

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all.

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

I can fall asleep anywhere.

A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.

self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation).