A freshet in the autumn does not compensate for a drought in the spring.

The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.

There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.

We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world

Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

Healing Magic I instill, Far Greater this, Than any pill!

There are few things more contagious than a healthy attitude.

If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.

Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.

Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.

Take what you need, and find solace where you can.

Don't agonize, organize.

He looked okay. No, to be honest. He looked a lot better than okay. He looked...fine. Fine, as in get the Chiffons over here to sing a chorus.

If you do not control the enemy, the enemy will control you

You watch the game, you don't see Busquets. You watch Busquets, you see the whole game.