I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.

I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.

But, God knows best, I concluded.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.

Personalized beauty is about each woman being able to create her own makeup routine that complements her coloring and style.

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.

The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.

I'm worried that our technology is helping to bring the long, postwar consensus against fascism to an end.

The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?

I think one of the things I was shocked about was how interested the world is in 'American Idol' and how people, writers, they write about 'Idol' all the time, and I guess I didn't expect that.

No, Zoey." Heat sounded pissed. It's not okay here. Not for you." Well, maybe that's 'cause I'm not dead. Yet.

I'm no angel, but I'm no Bo-Beep either.

I don't wear dresses and flowers in my hair and float around!