The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

The more the merrier.

It takes nine tailors to make a man.

A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!

It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.

If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained.

Many times what we perceive as an error or failure is actually a gift. And eventually we find that lessons learned from that discouraging experience prove to be of great worth.

I remembered my father telling me when I was a little girl, "Guilt is bullshit. Don't ever let anyone make you feel guilty.

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.

People have said I have a Napoleon complex. But I've always had to fight for everything that I have.

Unhappiness does not come from the way things are, but from the difference between how things are and how we think they should be

I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.

An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. [Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

If we wait for the governments, it'll be too little, too late; if we act as individuals, it'll be too little; but if we act as communities, it might just be enough, just in time.

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.