If slander be a snake it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.

It takes all sorts of people to make a world.

Earth is here so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.

My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her like a banknote for two twenties.

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution " the old one.

Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself.

Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Some people's hearts are shrunk in them like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk.

The spiritual work builds upon awareness, increases consciousness, transforms it, merges it with the divine, and this is how to reach true spirituality in life.

A responsible woman sees and accepts only the best in a given situation.

It is human nature for self-doubt to occasionally creep in and take up residence. It happens to even the most successful people among us.

My novels point out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.

Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.

No. I don't go through your things. I just come once in a while to make sure you're in one piece. I like knowing you're safe, asleep in your bed. I haven't stolen anything.

My own standards that I'll hold myself to is if the product that I'm making feels honest and it feels like I didn't compromise and it just came from an honest, correct place.

Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power.

The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.

Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.