We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

Gabriel Oak: "It's time for you to fight your own battles... and win them too.

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.

When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.

He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society.

But you are too lovely even to care to be kind as others are.

It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting outof love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as ashort cut that way, but it has been known to fail.

Happiness is a habit, it’s more than fleeting, more than a disintegrating lozenge.

We don’t need eyes to judge people’s beauty

Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.

My family isn't posh; they're musicians.

My friend Ronald Gottesman says...that the cause of all our trouble is the belief in an essential, pure identity: religious, ethnic, historical, ideological.

The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it

The true human condition in its most perfect form has no secrets. It does not hide, but exists in clear love.

Some say you forgive and forget. Not true. You can't forget but you walk forward in forgiveness.

Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving.

I think we seek out people who we hope will fix what our childhood broke.