"Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“When you catch an adjective, kill it.”

“Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.”

“Everything human is pathetic”

“I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'”

“Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.”

“It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.”

“You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self.”

“Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.”

“His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be”