Thought is free.
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.
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.
Before I speak, I have something important to say.
Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open
If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.