An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.

I don't think we [the USA] need more troops. I think we need to be less worried about civilian casualties.

... family and friends aren't always ready to make the journey when you are, and you just have to keep plowing along whether they have confidence in you or not. That can be very lonely.

If you want to get along with somebody, let them be right, and it will last longer.

My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.

Choose To Be Inspired.

However, don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started.

Not all complex problems have easy solutions; so says science (so warns science.)

When we're doing an action game, we make the second level first. We begin making level 1 once everything else is completed.

But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear.