He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

Gabriel Oak: "It's time for you to fight your own battles... and win them too.

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.

When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society.

But you are too lovely even to care to be kind as others are.

It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting outof love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as ashort cut that way, but it has been known to fail.

The lives we lead, every decision, it shows on our faces.

Lightsong had never bothered to learn the rules.He found it more amusing to play when he had no idea what he was doing.

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

With prayer, you may be able to start one discipline or habit that will overflow into many more positive, God-honoring traits.

It is interesting that so many people who become disenchanted, who protest against their own organizations, are people who contributed something to them and then saw how it was misused.

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.

The true secret to seeking the unknown is in the looking, not the finding. The journey is what matters.

In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing they burst into laughter

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.