Truth, that fair goddess who comes always with healing in her wings.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.
My sister says she never seems to get it together . . . either her rear looks good or her face does.
God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks.
A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.
The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, whereas I should keep to the butcher's trade.
Writers aren't exactly people, they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.
When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
All is change; all yields its place and goes.
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
How many opportunities present themselves to a man without his noticing them?
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility, which religion is powerless to bestow.