“Read with a vengeance, as if the author’s life is on trial, because nothing will have such an impact and be a better investment than owning, reading, and re-reading books that will change the way you think, write, and speak.”

“For a woman to deny the necessity of true love in her life would be to deny herself, and her creator.”

“The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue …”

“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”