I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted-if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.

Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

Men ... always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us because some other hour might take it away?

Where once I prayed for forgiveness from a father God who held up huge palms and said “Thou shalt not, ” now I find peace with a sister god who takes my open hands in hers and says, “You will.

Children are a blessing. They are a happiness so sharp that it feels like pain.

Have the vision to create something wonderful, something that has true value forever.

Awareness about lack of knowledge is the most useful knowledge.

If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

Buying wine is a political act.

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.

A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.

True love is your souls recognition of its counterpoint in another.