I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep... - Charlotte Bronte

"Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves."

"The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed."

"Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm."

"I write because I cannot NOT write."

"The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely."