No mean woman can cook well. It calls for a generous spirit, a light hand, and a large heart.

You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.

Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.

Beer drinking doesn't do half the harm of lovemaking.

As for the largest-hearted of us, what is the word we write most often in our cheque-books? "Self.

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.

Those who seek to impress upon us that they are gentlemen will usually be found mistaken.

The biggest fool may come out with a bit of sense when you least expect it.

We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

With much prayer comes great grace from God.

Unexpressed grief leaves the deepest scars.

No one leaves this hidden treasure, Feeling the same way they came, They always refer their friends to this Gem, This island with a beautiful name, My beautiful “Bim”—Barbados

When I was very little, my mother used to say there was something of my grandmother in me, in how I tell stories the way I need them to be and not the way they actually happened.

I would never say that GOD did not do anything I wished for he made it come true.

Resisting the powers that be, we are keeping things from getting worse than they otherwise might be. And that effort is very much worthwhile.

Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the soul.

I prefer to stroll which has a buddy at nighttime, than by itself inside the light.

You cannot police me, so get off my areola