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

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

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

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

Each soul is potentially divine.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.