If women were humbler, men would be honester.

A slighted woman knows no bounds.

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

No man is worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.

Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.

As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.

Tho marriage be a lottery in which there are a wondrous many blanks, yet there is one inestimable lot in which the only heaven on earth is written.

You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare ourselves and our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

I don't think Aaron Sorkin can write a character who isn't really funny.

In the most advanced state of love we don't love for any reason or purpose. We don't even direct our love necessarily to an object.

To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.

My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.

If a restaurant offers crayons, I always take them and color throughout the meal. It beats talking to the people I came to dinner with.

What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant.