Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you.

The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.

There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.

We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world

Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.

I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.'

Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.

Believing in something and being a part of something you believe in and watching it work and coming from it.

We're heading for a gov. shutdown. This is serious. W/o the gov who will fail to inspect our airplanes? Who will fail to secure our borders? Who will put us 14 trillion dollars in debt?

Fashion is one of the most beautiful forms of art we have. It's a form of art that every person gets to possess and create for themselves.

In the end, as you get older and older, your life is your life, and you are alone with it.

My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.

Do we give thanks to God 'for his unspeakable gift' and His rich blessings so abundantly bestowed upon us?

I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.