such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

Credulity is the sister of innocence.

I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.

to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

I am unique...I play by a different set of rules I am not intimidated by anything.

Our education system often teaches us how to conform more than how to wonder and venture.

Completely and perfectly and incandescently happy...

I've learnt that solitude is sometimes a path that leads to peace

Love doesn't grow on the trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make and you must use your imagination to make it too just like anything else. It's all work work.

I've always been comfortable in the skin that I'm in.

The proper thing to do is to admit that hell is real and to allow our feelings of discomfort to motivate us to action.

You might be a redneck if you have been fired from a construction job because of your appearance.

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

I was one of those kids that was always picked on but, one thing I gotta say it that no matter how bad your life gets, there's always a bright light out there and you gotta find it.