Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler

Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.

The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

Loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are…and to stop looking outside yourself for your worth.

But for the first time, Boaz couldn't think of a single word to describe this kind of loneliness, so scary and real it required an entirely different language, new and strange and yet to be invented

We must empower our weak to be strong, and teach our strong to be compassionate. This will open a door to oneness.

That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!

Learning is finding out what you already know.

The thing I don't get about paedophilia... Why the hell do kids find old men in dirty raincoats so sexy?

God is at home. We are in the far country.

What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief.

I was never a strikeout pitcher. Why should I throw eight or nine balls to get a man out when I got away with three or four?

If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.