You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Obstinate, headstrong girl!

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Angry people are not always wise.

I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job

Lovers meander in prose and rhyme, trying to say-for the thousandth time-what's easier done than said.

Women naturally prefer their ideas to their sensations.

I want fame now, not after I'm dead.

Studies have shown that, at least among students, popularity equals visibility.

People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

Kids make their mark in life by doing what they can do, not what they can't... School is important, but life is more important. Being happy is using your skills productively, no matter what they are.

If you are going to be successful, you have to start hanging out with the successful people.

If I can tell my story, and help anybody else in the interim, then that's icing on the cake.

He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it.