A guardian angel comes when you are very young, and gives you special dispensation. From what? From the world. Yours might be luck. Mine is money.

I don't judge people by their bodies. Even when I was a young girl I liked men for their minds. Now that I'm middle-aged I see how right I was.

Houses! I hate houses. I like public places. Houses break your heart.

I feel that I have done everything, absolutely everything wrong, but perhaps something nice will happen anyway.

Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.

It may be true that the government that governs best governs least Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst.

Sometimes when a man gets older he has a revelation and wants awfully bad to get back to the place where he left his life, but he can't get to that place- not often.

Sisterly love is one of the few boons in this life.

I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren't cut out to do.

Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see.

I fear nomads. I am afraid of them and afraid for them too.

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

Every feature has some maintenance cost, and having fewer features lets us focus on the ones we care about and make sure they work very well.

The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself.

Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued.

[John] Adams was the best and most colorful stylist among the Founders. Although [Tomas] Jefferson is widely regarded as the smoothest writer, Adams is by far the most engaging and imaginative.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.