Humour is the best way to make the unbearable bearable.

Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.

The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways.

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I've always despised that type, but I see how it happens now

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

You were born to persistently change your negative conditions instead of being changed by them.

Touching your cap to the squire may be damn bad for the squire, but it's damn good for you.

Women! Whether human or divine, what man can ever truly understand them?

Competition is pretty much the essence of everything, it gives humans drive.

From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.

Contain all human faces in your own without any judgment of them

Good people can do bad things, make bad decisions. It doesn't make them bad people.

If you've read something brilliant, it's good. It's good to look out the window and see what's going on in the world.

The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.

Because of Jesus-there is always hope, even in the darkest moments of your life.