I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books.

Every pain is a lesson.

The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.

Should; shouldn't; ought; oughtn't—the enemies of contentment.

Stick a lighted candle up your backside to give yourself that inner glow.

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.

I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn't individual enough.

Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued.

There are some places you love with your heart, and there are some places that you love with your mind- the places that you love with both are called 'libraries'

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

Of one thing we can be certain: every person we see - no matter the race, religion, political beliefs, body type, or appearance - is family.

It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.

Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

The true spirit of Christmas is love

I love the feel of good quality Italian black lace that feels delicate and really feminine.

I ask not for a larger garden, but for finer seeds.

There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.

The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay plans against you.

Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power.

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.