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

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

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

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

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

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.