True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
Death is a fearful thing.
Cliches are truisms and all truisms are true.
What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.
I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?
Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain.
Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people.
A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
True forgiveness is when you can say, "thank you for that experience.
Humour is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of surprises.
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
You were perfectly fine.
If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.