All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.

If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.

All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

A great wind is blowing and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.

I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to the degree that I ever was, a noticer.

If skating got into the Olympics, I would be tempted to hold off on shredding for a year and just skate, to make that my new goal. In that sport, I'm still the underdog.

Teaching is an art, not a science, principally because it involves human beings, their emotions and their values.

The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts. And his mental capacity to make reasonable contracts is certainly not to be determined by the fact that he is, or is not, twenty-one years of age.

Design is everything. Everything!

The truest indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.

The eagle may soar beavers build dams.

There are many roads to journalism. My feeling is that your best bet in college is to study the subjects you will want to write about, whether politics, the environment or the law.

Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions.

It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.

One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.

It is but too common, of late, to condemn the acts of our predecessors and to pronounce them unjust, unwise, or unpatriotic from not adverting to the circumstances under which they acted. Thus, to judge is to do great injustice to the wise and patriotic men who preceded us.

When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.

Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.

Clarity keeps you from boredom.

Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show to the world. Every so often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

The blood is the life

There is no bigotry like that of 'free thought' run to seed.

There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it frequently.

I'm not perfect, but I believe my faith in Jesus Christ will really take me far in the world!

I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

I'm a geek who loves fashion. There's been a reinvention of the word geek. It means being passionate about anything that's under the radar or sort of frowned upon, like Comic-Con.

I'm like most people. We just concentrate on the present. I live right where the film is going through the film projector and it hits the light.