Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.
To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.
There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.
Society is an interweaving and interworking of mental selves. I imagine your mind and especially what your mind thinks about my mind and what my mind thinks about what your mind thinks about my mind. I dress my mind before you and expect that you will dress yours before mine. Whoever cannot or will not perform these feats is not properly in the game.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me, it's sentence by sentence, sometimes word-by-word. And I revise constantly. It's a very laborious process, but I love doing it.
The goal we have set for ourselves, which is to diversify our cooperation with China, is making progress.
I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me.
Perhaps there are just some things you leave behind when you choose a new life.