The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Is it not meningitis?

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.

Touch with your heart more than with your hands.

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down.

Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.

Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out, while Romantic grows from outside in.

She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and could not have told you why.

Freedom exists for the sake of love.

I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything

An entrepreneur isn't someone who owns a business, it's someone who makes things happen.

In every country, they make fun of city. In U.S. you make fun of Cleveland. In Russia, we make fun of Cleveland.