Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.

Squabbling over too little is just human nature. But it says a great deal about a person, what they do with abundance.

It was only a matter of time. She would love him before the week was out and it would be gloriously terrible, wonderfully hopeless.

It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life--be she a genteel lady or a serving girl--might find a happier home within the pages of a book.

You're an intensely attractive woman. You do know that, don't you?" To her silence, he replied, "You'd believe me if you could see your

Her, ” he said. “I’ll take her.

Don’t. Don’t play that game.” His brow pressed to hers. “When I heard you cry out . . . it was like a saber to the gut. I wanted to die.

Why did men have to ruin everything? The answer was simple, she supposed—because foolish women gave them the chance

We would do ourselves a tremendous favor by letting go of the people who poison our spirit.

A lot of people notice when you succeed they don’t see what it takes to get there.

Good leadership is about the company's success, not your own.

Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.

When you lose the gayborhoods, you lose the political power that comes when you're concentrated in precincts, and you also lose the cultural vitality.

If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day for a few thousand years, and it isn't natural.

I am quite content to come home and go to Farming, be a select Man, and owe no Man any Thing but good Will. There I can get a little health and teach my Boys to be Lawyers.

Self-Reliance is a prerequisite to the complete freedom to act.

Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.

People can't see your root system, but God can. Praying and meditating on the Word of God will cause your roots to go down deep into His love.