Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

Veins of ivy scale stones, find footholds butthe caretaker cuts earth short, peels creepers from Cotswold rock and props the deadhead to head so they won’ttopple like drunkson their moss-soft shadows.

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness and love.

I'm sorry to say so but, sadly, it's true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you.

My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.

Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.

A girl who is really pretty - whether she wraps herself in an abayah, a nun's habit, or the front hall rug - never wraps herself so that the world can't tell.

I bought an energy bar, and as I ate it a great weariness came over me.

The difference in the way Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump talk about the middle class is stark. For Clinton, it's a story of hope. For Trump, it is a story of loss.

It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.