Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.

There was always a way, when one knew what one wanted.

As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.

Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.

What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is death? An inevitable happening, an uncertain pilgrimage, the tears of the living, the thief of man.

Strange, the workings of the heart. One could go on for years, habituated to loss, reconciled to it, and then, in a moment's unwary thought, the pain resurfaced, sharp and raw as a fresh wound.

To marry is to surrender everything--not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.

She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.

She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.

This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.

Why, she wondered, do we always reserve our worst hatred for our own?

Funny is always a good way to start when in doubt

It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Boom, crush. Night, losers. Winning, duh.

From this moment on I know exactly where my life will go: seems that all I really was doing was waiting for love.

I believe in being compassionate.

I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.

There are pilots and there are pilots; with the good ones, it is inborn. You can't teach it. If you are a fighter pilot, you have to be willing to take risks.

At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics.

I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.