My genius from a boy Has fluttered like a bird within my heart; But could not thus confined her power employ, Impatient to depart.

Oh! that my soul had winged its flight, When first I saw the morning light, To worlds of liberty!

I leave my parents here behind And all my friends to love resigned 'Tis grief to go, but death to stay Farewell -- I'm gone with love away.

Everyone around you becomes kind and loving when you express your kindness and beauty of love.

The goodness of life is the gratitude of existence.

Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.

There is no such thing as a natural puncher. There is a natural aptitude for punching and that is different. Nobody is born the best. You have to practice and train to become the best.

The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

A hard headed woman, a soft hearted man, been the cause of trouble ever since the world began.

For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level. LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.

Today is not bad just because yesterday seemed better.

Politics was my hobby, and I really spent 25 years as a full-time homemaker. I tell the feminists the only person's permission I had to get was my husband's.