“A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.”

Let us have the luxury of silence.

I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.

It is very unfair to judge any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

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

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

Act without expectation.

I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history – it is a moment for action.

You’re going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it’s always their actions you should judge them by. It’s actions, not words, that matter.

There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.

The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .