I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

Men fight wars. Women win them.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue

There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone

Is it a world in the makingthat turns as it whistles to the depths of my beingIt is burningSuppose it were to appearA bleeding rosary at the windowa sun setting on the marshlands("Silver Clasp")

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.

What I know from my friends who are cops is they keep their houses very clean, because they say you never know if you're coming back or not.

The only advantage to wearing glasses is that you can do that dramatic removal.

Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is.

I am evergreen, and with every passing day, I am becoming younger.

The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.

Start slow and taper off.

That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.