The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

She feared God may not deliver her out of this mess, especially if He had a greater plan.

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.

Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.

When the heart is pierced, there is pain, yes, but also an invitation to a greater becoming.

I brake for brunettes.

As daughters of our Heavenly Father, and as daughters of Eve, we are all mothers and we have always been mothers. And we each have the responsibility to love and help lead the rising generation.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.