Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Always desire to learn something useful

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

How do you forgive those who’ve betrayed you? Move on from the hurt they caused? Does forgiving mean you’ve given them a pass?... Forgiveness is tricky

Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus?

In everything one must consider the end.

Just keep going like crazy and look back when it's over. Otherwise you just get confused.

Hard to guess what people see in each other, fortunately for the continued existence of the human race.

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment.

Upside of being an attractive woman; if you're remotely intelligent, people will treat you like you're brilliant. Downside: same thing.

I write on a laptop, so it's impossible to count drafts anymore.

We are reorganizing in order to eliminate duplication and redundancy.

A country is not only what it does but what it tolerates.