Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade

I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.

When the heroes go off the stage the clowns come on.

Another problem with worry is that it makes you forget your worth. Worry makes you feel worthless, forgotten, and unimportant.

No birth is an accident, No experience is without meaning, and no life is without value.

All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform.

Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.

Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude / And flew to the silence of sweet solitude.

It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan.

The simple fact is that we must not-and we will not-surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice.