She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.

When my soul was in the lost-and-found You came along to claim it.

Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.

I'd definitely like to see less twerking and more power chords.

I'm not a crazy old cat lady!

. . .I really ought to have recognized it for what it was and, perhaps, to have stopped right there - for it was nostalgia, and what inspires nostalgia has been dead a long time

Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient.

The brightest stars emerge out of the blackest darkness