Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?

To love and win is the best thing.To love and lose, the next best.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Unfortunately, some women want to remake their husbands after their own design.

I always wonder why birds stay in the same place.

A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom.

A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.

From the time we're born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and coconspirators, our role models and our cautionary tales.

You guys might be surprised, but I am not Honey Boo Boo Child.

I have not loved the world, nor the world me.

Back of the sound broods the silence, back of the gift stands the giving; Back of the hand that receives thrill the sensitive nerves of receiving.

But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.