Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.

There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.

There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.

Life is a lie, and Love a cheat.

my beauty, flower by flower, star by star, wave by wave, love, I have counted your body.

Whenever you feel your light dimming, you can snap yourself back into feeling good with the simple mantra, ‘I’m getting brighter and brighter and brighter and brighter!

So this, Harriet thought, gazing at her black-clad reflection, was what bearing up looked like. The eyes in the mirror stared at her, somehow, while fixing themselves far

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Traveling is really exhausting. That will force me into retirement.

I think people dismiss celebrity memoirs as unreal, contrived and maybe partially made up. But that's definitely not true for anything that I write.

As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.

Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.