If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

That aspects are within us; and who seems Most kingly is the King.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

I always have the time, the room and the energy for more love.

Multibagger mantra

There is no "wrong train.

The best thing to gift yourself is to be just YOURSELF, improving above the person that you were yesterday.

When your dreams tire they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.

[on the voice of the intelligence] It is drowned out by the roar of fear.

I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.