It is true I little respect women or girls who are loquacious either in boasting the triumphs, or bemoaning the mortifications, of feelings.

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.

I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

Conventionality is not morality.

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

We can't have freedom unless we have freedom. And that means freedom to speak our minds.

Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.

I won't swim in a pool by myself, because I think that somehow a little magic door is going to open up and let a shark out.

I try not to always use self-check-out and things like that!

Ignorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind.

If you can't help me grow, there's no point with you being in my life.

Your parents want to think they have a healthy, happy family.

Real friendship, love, respect, and trust are all gained without a single dollar.

May those who have touched our canvas with their eyes and hearts grow knowing the joy and wonder of an artist of life.

True art is reverent imitation of God.