The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.

There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.

We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world

Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.

No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.

Design is not art. Design is utilitarian, art is not.

Success is the potential destiny of all created things

It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.

Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

I have no religion, but I can't escape being extremely Jewish ethnically - that is, culturally. In other words, I'm not religious, but I worry and I'm neurotic. And I'm very good with money.

You know, there has never been a 24-hour period in five years when I have not responded to e-mail at Facebook. I am not saying it's easy. I work long hours.

I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.