The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.

And since all this loveliness can not be Heaven, I know in my heart it is June.

American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.

Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is, that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.

I'm not a machine. I get really motivated, then I fall off the wagon and want to eat Chinese food and sit on my couch and gain five or 10 pounds!

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.

"Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God" this appears to be the commandment in all religions.

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Through the years, I have helped thousands of children who were ill or in distress.

If you actually do cold readings, it's very close to how people actually talk, because you're experiencing these thoughts anew every moment, and trying to make them come out coherently.

Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

The only freedom left is the freedom to starve.