Accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open With the grace of woman not the grief of a child ...

What are the distinctive characteristics, or marks, of personality? Knowledge, feeling or emotion, and will. Any entity that thinks and feels and wills is a person.

In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel.

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be.

You need more than your own wisdom in rearing [your children]. You need the help of the Lord. Pray for that help and follow the inspiration which you receive.

Your children are not little mirrors reflecting back the good or bad job you've done.

Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.

We lavender folk spray up, spontaneously flowering in the color we had learned as an identifying mark of our culture when it was subterranean and secret.

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences.

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event which was planned in which races were run, and I simply just won these by a considerable margin