I am treating you as my friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

The mind I love must have wild places.

Love: the great connector. Stay Connected

He is not an ideal husband. I am his wife.

The Maker is very great in mercy.

There is no greater treasure in this world than somebody who loves you as you are.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten.

The net of heaven is very wide in its meshes, and yet it misses nothing.

The nature of competition is such that any number of people invariably have their eyes on the same prize you do. Recognize your assets and employ them to the best of your ability.

I've wanted to go to space, really, since I was a little girl.

I'm five-foot-something, sixty years old; I'm not much of a physical threat to anybody.