In the long run the pessimist may be proved to be right but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

Such subtle covenants shall be made, Till peace itself is war in masquerade.

The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.

It takes the same energy to think small as it does to think big. So dream big and think bigger.

We have nothing now between us, save - respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies.

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

Being fit and being in the best shape that I can be helps me be the best mom as well.

I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.

Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.

There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.