youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.

In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.

Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.

The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: Byron is dead!

People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.

Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.

To find the true cause of how you think and feel, find the 'sponsoring thought' that created the interpretation that created your experience of life.

If you stick to what you know; you sell yourself short.

The lack of racial diversity and gender diversity and the lack of female directors - those are not fashionable issues. And they're not issues that reside solely within the film industry.

I see the underlying economy as being very healthy.

The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole.

I need to keep pressing on until I am thoroughly thankful.

I'm truly obsessed by clothes. I just buy clothes all the time.

Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.

The wretchedness of failure is the great attraction of success.