Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

She said that that was the disadvantage of bringing creatures into the house: one grew used to them, and then, one had the upset of their loss.

The vase was placed upon my desk, and there were orange-blossoms in it—orange-blossoms, in an English winter!

No one has the ability to define who you are unless you give permission.

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

Forgiveness is a sign that the person who has wronged you means more to you than the wrong they have delt.

It's always difficult to make predictions about the future.

I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters.

I don’t usually think about things that are filthy, or unpleasant. I think about the good things, because I know they exist. And I want to believe in those good things.

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.

You never have a friend all figured out. Just when you think you know what makes them tick, they tock.

The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.