All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Each soul is potentially divine.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

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

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

The future ain't what it used to be.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

The day of individual happiness has passed

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.