Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.
Oh! what a luxury it is to weep, And find in tears a sad relief!
Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.
It is a mournful thing to know that you are utterly isolated among millions of human beings; that not a drop of your blood flows in any other veins.
If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not avail. Man's will, like woman's, is stronger than the affection, and, once subjugated by vice, all eternal influences will be futile.
Money is everything in this world to some people, and more than the next to other poor souls.
Poetry is the purest form of insanity.
When I was growing up in Montana I had two dreams: I wanted to be a paleontologist and I wanted to have a pet dinosaur and so that's what I've been striving for all of my life.
There are certain scripts that are just written in a way where, for whatever reason, I read it, and instantly that inspiration hit me and it was just kind of electric, and I didn't have to think about it. It just kind of went from there.
It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.
But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.