How very little can be done under the spirit of fe...

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.