Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?

Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.

Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive

O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.

To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words.

I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.

Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.

We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them.

She was always looking for guarantees in a world of none.

If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better.

If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.

Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.

After living out of a suitcase for years, it's a feeling of peace to wake up in the night and know where I am.

I always drink at lunchtime. It helps my imagination.

Friendship, love, health, energy, enthusiasm, and joy are the things that make life worth living and exploring.

So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.

The first thing you must do is forget that I'm Black. Second, you must never forget that I'm Black.