Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?

Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.

Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive

O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.

To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words.

I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.

I love the smell of paper in the morning; it smells like victory.

I think the universal theme would be love and relationships and how if you really want to live and be alive that that's proven through the amount of love you give and receive.

The new CIA torture report is 6 million pages long. It's almost as long as a George Clooney pre-nup.

I don't mind being it [age 60], I just don't like saying it.

I don't support violence, period.

The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.

I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and torture.

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said "A civilization is judged only in its decline." That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.

Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?

This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity.