The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

Just because you may not feel confident about doing something now does not mean you will not master it later with ease.

I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.

Social media... it's the future for the new generation.

On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!

If I don’t do what feels right to me, what I need and want to do, then am I really living?

A Christian life based on feeling is headed for a gigantic collapse.

Good strong banks are essential for every family and for every business in the country and extraordinary times call for the bold and far-reaching solutions that the Treasury has announced today.

The fact is, there really is no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty

The preservation of freedom, is not the task of soldiers alone. The whole nation has to be strong.

Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.