Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

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

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

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

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.