True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it.

A slighted woman knows no bounds.

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

No man is worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.

Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.

As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.

Tho marriage be a lottery in which there are a wondrous many blanks, yet there is one inestimable lot in which the only heaven on earth is written.

Power is the ability to direct or privent the current or future actions of other groups and individuals.

I love to roast vegetables - carrots, fennel, and so on. I also love to mash or puree pretty much any vegetable!

A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.

I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.

the biggest risk is to take no risk. or to take crazy risks.

Just the way I carry my swag and I'm humble with it too.

I'd like to think that we've certainly strengthened the position of some of our government businesses.

Never let go of the people that you love, because without them, what else have you got?

Yet is our deepest desire is truly to live and go on living, why do we blindly insist that death is the end? Why not at least try and explore the possibility that there may be a life after?

I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.