wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.

The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus.

To conform to a sick society is to become sick.

Stop comparing yourself with anybody. Compare yourself with yourself, for yourself and by yourself. We are uniquely pottered and purposed by our maker!

Words said can never be recalled. So it is best, oftimes, not to speak too quickly. Yet words left unsaid are worse. We wear them like weights around our hearts.

A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.

Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state.

Thank you to the world for being a wild and inspiring place, full of odd creatures, strange people, and mysterious cities. I hope by and by to know you better.

It’s ok to not be ok, but it’s not ok to stay that way.

I truly believe that a woman can have anything she wants - if she's willing to do the hard work it takes to get it.

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.