Great art picks up where nature ends.
He who must needs have company, must needs have sometimes bad company.
Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?
A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the Devil, who ever consorts with our solitude.
I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.
Art is the perfection of nature,. . . nature is the art of God.
If you do not feel deserving of happiness, consciously or subconsciously, or if you have accepted the idea that happiness is somehow wrong or cannot last, you will not respond appropriately when happiness comes knocking at your door in the form of romantic love. No matter how much you may have waited and cried, you will not welcome love when it arrives-you will find a way to sabotage it. What a challenge to resist this temptation! What an opportunity for true spiritual growth and transformation-to defy your negative feelings and honor the gift that life offers you!
I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. It defines life for me. It's all I've ever imagined for myself.
I have never made any distinction between those who have taken vows and those who have not; some should not be overburdened in order to spare others.
At a time when women's rights are under assault from the White House, the Republican Congress, and in states across the country, we must speak up for a woman's right to make her own choices about her body and her health as loudly as ever and with one voice.