“Our achievements may make us interesting, Tyler, but our darkness makes us lovable.”

“Achievements are the fuel on which we thrive. They add meaning – make us feel alive.Others may judge everything we do. But our achievements are our own point of view.”

“Though our past may shape us, it's our future that makes us.”

“Women shouldn't iron, ever. It's our wrinkles that make us interesting.”

“Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often in the gathering darkness of a Sunday evening) that much of who we are, or could be, has gone unexplored.”

“The continual emotion that is felt in the theater excites us, enervates us, enfeebles us, and makes us less able to resist our passions. And the sterile interest taken in virtue serves only to satisfy our vanity without obliging us to practice it.”