We don't always get what we deserve," she replied, patting James over his heart. "Sometimes we get more; sometimes we get less. At least we get something.

There's money, and then there's class. The two are often separated.

Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking.

A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight.

Life isn't a straightforward climb up the ladder. It can take a few slips to really gain perspective.

Especially in a world that doesn't need homemade anything.That's when we need homemade everything.

Sometimes suffering is just suffering,” she told Gus. “It doesn't make you stronger. It doesn't build character. It only hurts.

The Friday Night Knitting Club

Women do amazing, creative, wonderful things.

Things work out better when you're straight up.

...An honest conversation with anyone is a form of praying.

Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

The biggest cause of divorse in my opinion is marriage

Replace dabbling with laser-beamfocus on something important.

Fire consumes, in Prose it cripples. You'll mind the ashes that have no shoes

All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.

They say men have a sexual thought every 20 seconds. The other 19 are shame.

What indicates a person’s weak religion and fear of God, is that he seeks for an opinion that suits his desire.

Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.

The lion and the lamb may, possibly, sumtime lay down in this world together for a fu minnits, but when the lion kums tew git up, the lamb will be missing.

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.