…she had no resources for solitude…

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Time will explain.

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world... We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away.

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

You have to be careful on the deck, because of the "hatches," which are holes placed around a sailboat at random to increase the insurance rates.

You can never begin to live until you dare to die.

I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath; I am the memory of a moment of happiness; I am the last gift of the living to the dead; I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow.

You don't look so much like a great hero,' Jarrah said. 'I'm pretty sure I'm not,' Mack said wearily. 'My throat is hoarse from screaming in terror. I don't think heroes have that problem.

Encouraging children to live healthy lifestyles is something I take very seriously.

I did try Botox, unfortunately, but I got out of it and now I can finally move my face again.

How would you possibly sell 700 companies in a fire sale and hope to get what they were worth?It's just an unrealistic sort of standard they're trying to hold [Donald Trump] to.

Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker. I hope his kidneys fail.