Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.