Still, if I don't believe in the possibility, I might go mad from fear.

In the dull, persistent beat of her heart, she hears the rhythm of hope. It is faint and thin as a thread, but it is there.

There is nothing humble about this woman.

Because it is my destiny, Zabdas! Because I've always known the gods made me for something more -- more than just a wife, just a mother, just a woman. They made me for power!

Men always laugh whenever a woman says she has political skill. But it's not such a difficult thing to master.

She will not bow her head to any woman or man, so why, indeed, should she bow to a needle?

I have no regrets. Everything that happens to me was divinely ordered.

That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.

Without a home must the soldier go, a changeful wanderer, and can warm himself at no home-lit hearth.

Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.

What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.

I have never felt any connection with my family. There is—I must say simply—something in me that is not in my family. That was not visible in my father or mother. I do not know its origin.

When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.

If there was acceptance of the mentally ill in the Catholic Church, the entire Curia would resign!

[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.

No act of kindness is wasted.