Daddy used to say that calling a person a romantic was just another way of saying he or she acted without regard for conseqences.

...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.

Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.

There's a difference between being alive and living.

My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.

On the board, Mr. Beery had written "Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it." I wasn't sure if this was meant to be inspirational, thematic, or a joke about making sure to study.

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead.Everything else is just a bump in the road.

No two persons ever read the same book.

I’ve never seen a man who understands so little about women and yet is so led about by them.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

What we have to realize is that when the inner voice gives us guidance, it's always going to be for our highest good - and it's always going to bring us more joy than we think.

The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.

What I really do is make portraits of the soul.

With ruin staring you in the face, there is nothing worse to live through than a siege of waiting and hoping. If you manage to live through it, nothing can ever jar your nerves after that.

There is the easy way and there is my way.

Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.