... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

If we want to see real change in our world, it begins with us all on an individual basis.

I'm not just building a foundation or a house with the bricks people throw at me. I'm building entire worlds. it's called writing.

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, "age-old pastime of humanity".

Everything in life has a space of balance.

You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

God gave these ten laws for our good. He wants us to be our very best and to get the most that is possible our of life.

Story is the mother of us all, for we become who we say we are.

I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.

I would be lying if I didn't say that the most inspirational place for me is Jamaica.

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it