But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.

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

I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.

The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

After all, tomorrow is another day.

Hardships make or break people.

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!” he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face." - Rhett Butler

Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

Her black is beautiful, his society is ugly.

Children are born atheists. Then they are indoctrinated and abused by so-called 'God's representatives.' Innocents are scarred emotionally and psychologically by those who are sworn to protect them.

I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.

Sometimes the good fight feels impossible, but I for one, am NOT giving up.

Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.

Closing the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is a promise President [Barack] Obama made it but has yet to fulfill.

God always comes up with a third act twist -- and we won't know until we die whether the play was a comedy or a tragedy.

As a matter of fact. I think I actually frighten men. I think I scare the hell out of them time after time.

Lessee...he'd gone off after the funeral and gotten drunk. No, not drunk, another word, ended with "er." Drunker. that was it.