a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

It would surely be a mistake to gauge the success of feminism by its success as a colonial project. p41.

I suppose the test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found that one can never please the people they wanted to please.

Just as physical wounds heal at different rates in different people, so do emotional wounds. Everyone has different needs and speeds.

Listening is more important than talking.

The best that we can hope for in this life is that we shall not have sons and grandsons of whom we need to be ashamed.

The time to show up fully for life is right now, whatever the circumstances.

Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.

We not only need to work happy, we need to work at being happy.

The thing about leaving something behind for the last time is that you rarely realize you're doing it.