I thank god that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.

If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln for in him I saw the destroyer.

A true woman always loves a real soldier.

I only wanted to help my people.

As long as it served his purpose, Mr. Lincoln boldly advocated the right of Secession.

What a jolly thing military surveillance is!

Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for the insane at Stockton, Cal. My boy was buried there.

Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

Men will always be boys.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

If you can't beat 'em in the alley, you can't beat 'em on the ice.

'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they are waiting for their soul mate. You even see it in Disney.

Giving is what makes a nation great.

Success without someone to share it with is hollow indeed. On the other hand, it beats the heck out of failure.

On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic message: 'Blood, toil, sweat and tears always were a good mixture'.

Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life.