Tho marriage be a lottery in which there are a wondrous many blanks, yet there is one inestimable lot in which the only heaven on earth is written.

A slighted woman knows no bounds.

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

No man is worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.

Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.

As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough.

Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field.

The key to controlling your own political party, so that it does not eat you alive, is to realize that while Democratic and Republican leaders differ sharply, their voters do not.

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call--not without a little embarrassment--faith.

What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.

To find what we aren't able to find, we must look in a place we haven't looked.

I'm in crisis. I'm about to bump with a five-foot chino-chicano.

Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.

At the end of the day, besides everything that I do, I'm still just a 20-year-old girl and a Texan, at that.