In the career of female fame, there are few prizes to tie obtained which can vie with the obscure state of a beloved wife or a happy mother.

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.

It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

Bait, no matter how big, is useless if fish don’t want it.

Among the countless people in the world, two will find each other against all the odds and beat as a single eternal heart.- Not First Love

Bittersweet: it's what life tastes like. And if you can handle the bitter, the sweet will come later. ~ Klyde, in Piranhas Like S'mores.

About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.

The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way for a woman. We celebrate strength--in our partners as well as in ourselves.

Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.

I mean, how many men would have gone on to the floor of the House as Carolyn Maloney did and wear a burkha to show the fight of Afghan women.

Love supreme defies all sophistry.

Obsession is beautiful. It's what makes art.

Whatever happens, it happens because we choose for it. We decide our fates.