Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.

I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.

Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

We've been given a second chance. How many people can say that?

Oozing charm from every pore He oiled his way around the floor.

I don't date guys that I just meet randomly. I don't feel comfortable meeting strangers.

I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy

If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.

We are not heavenly destined for a particular road; every road is our destiny; every path and every passage is our fate.

In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.