At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

Sunlight is painting.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

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.

Freedom is from within.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.