The heart has always the pardoning power.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

We are rich only through what we give and poor only through what we refuse.

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

Old age is that night of life as night is the old age of day. Still night is full of magnificence and for many it is more brilliant than the day.

People are always telling women to lose weight, and then when they do, other women attack them for it.

Some were drawn towards displays of physical showboating, when it came to cats, while others preferred subtle intellectual stimulation.

I've been polite and I've always shown up. Somebody asked me if I had any advice for young people entering the business. I said: "Yeah show up."

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much.

Being pregnant, makes me want to do the wildest things

I've always been able to see you," I say. "It's a rather lovely view.

Although I cannot see your face As you flip these poems awhile, Somewhere from some far-off place I hear you laughing--and I smile.

I firmly believe that the court should take another direction on many of these moral issues that face us.

Do those clowns really believe what they teach?