The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.

I always wear boot polish on my eyelashes, because I am a very emotional person and it doesn't run when I cry.

You become what you think. You are what you eat.

When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.

My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.

I'll keep going till my face falls off.

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.

Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes for it and when she is old she remembers it.

To discover what becomes of men who do not pay debts owed to Ratilla, one must visit the underworld.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

Most scientists are without exception adorably quirky, and one of the ways of making it more accessible was to try to get readers interested in the person.

The key to effective giving is to stay open to receiving.

You say their stories, it is gift they give you.

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

Crowds of people moved through the streets with a dream-like violence.

A life without problems would be a barren existence, without the opportunity for spiritual growth.

Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs.

The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth.