They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

I, the ordinary restless child, the plain adolescent, the commoner who had been a nun twice, would prove to be a Daughter of Heaven.

When one opens a book, one should also open one's mind.

All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand- any dog child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.

It is possible to be dumb and be a college president.

My travels and everything that I do where travel has inspired and influenced not only the cooking that I do but also the restaurants that I create.

All great art and literature is propaganda.

I want to go to Australia and take the same goofy picture of me holding a koala that everyone else takes.

I love going on book tours because it's an opportunity to connect with the people that matter most to my brand.

I grew up poor, but I didn't have poor dreams

I do believe I am special. My special gift is my vision, my commitment, and my willingness to do whatever it takes.