If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.

You must study their deliveries, their use of their bodies, their timing, and their use of audio and vocal effects.

Hate me. Devastate me. Annihilate me. Re-create me. Re-create me. Won't you, won't you won't you re-create me.

Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

Love is the water of life, drink deeply.

The key to winning is poise under stress.

Ah, my sister used to hit me harder.

As a strong woman, there are things I would never put up with.

Never has our nation , or our world, stood on the precipice of adversity in such dire need of men answering the cry to rule well.