One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

No matter what you face, don't forget if you're positive, positivity will find you and embrace you.

When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.

The more you recognize the immense good within you, the more you magnetize immense good around you.

My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act.

Since we do operate in a binary world, if there's something that cannot be this or that, it drives us crazy.

I don't think there's any Bush baggage at all.

Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile.

Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

I think one of the biggest things that affects young women is when they hear their mothers using fat talk.

It has been pretty much downhill ever since the 13th amendment