“Nature provides exceptions to every rule.”

“Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from i...”

“What a difference it makes to come home to a child!”

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

“Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.”

“Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”

“I spearhead interior design for all Trump projects.”

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

“News told, rumors heard, truth implied, facts buried.”

“She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.”