Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.

Four women have helped me: mother, sister, mother-in-law and wife.

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There’s just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent’s voice to resonate in the children’s ears.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

When you allow a person’s words to upset you, you’re giving away your power.

You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.

Silence is so accurate.

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?

I am not prejudiced in any way.

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

In the 80s, when I was a little girl, this whole Midtown area was a different world. These are the streets that I walked, and learned my lessons on, and heard the music, and witnessed disenfranchised people, and people who just had dreams and hopes. Every pimp, every prostitute, every drug dealer, every Broadway dreamer wishing they could be a writer, or a musician, or an actor.

If you want to change the world, start with the next person who comes to you in need.

The most closely organized groups and movements in the world are those which have been the least friendly to the people’s progress and liberty.

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.