We're better off not worrying about ourselves, and to do that, we have to worry about others.

I remembered Grandmere Catherine used to tell me your first impressions about people usually prove to be the truest because your heart is the first to react.

Sometimes doing the right thing does take more courage, but the feeling it gives you deep inside makes it worth it.

Yes, I am a prisoner of sorts, but my prison isn't the house. It's my own thoughts that lock me up!

Whatever doesn't destroy you, makes you stronger. Hardships have a way of toughening us, if they don't kill us.

We had been separated by time and distance and events so long, it was as if we had to get to know each other again, but if it was possible to fall in love with the same person twice, I did.

Being rich and coming from a distinguished family background doesn't guarantee happiness, Abby. In fact, it might make happiness harder to find because you have to live up to akk that expectation.

Talent comes from education you had, languages you know and finally from skills you gain in your life.

I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.

You're sitting there, with your wife and your baby and your smiling dog, and you're watching Real Housewives getting into fistfights on TV. And you go, 'How great is my life? I'm so happy right now.'

I think the busiest people are often the loneliest.

Thoughts are odd misfires.

Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are - by definition - abusive relationships. You'll be much better off when you let them go.