Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one.

I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

To her, the name of father was another name for love.

Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.

O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

There are no little things. "Little things," so called, are the hinges of the universe.

I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues.

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.

I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.

Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own.

Live daringly.

Does it seem like I'm out of it? No you seemed like you were in total control as you fell down the stairs.

Many Africans are used to a life where they get up in the morning and don't know what they're going to do that day.

He kissed me desperately, like a drowning man and I was his oxygen.

Building confidence and constructive relations between Sudan and South Sudan is urgent

The World Cup is a truly international event.

Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.

I love the theater so much, and it's where I feel most comfortable. I love the people and the community.

Masquerading the heart is the height of haunting souls.