Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Having a kid is like an industrial revolution of the emotions. Suddenly you can mass produce worry, and guilt.

She was simply Asha, a woman on her own. Had the situation been otherwise, she might not have come to know her own brain.

Do something better and different that people know you by your work not by your name.

So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?

When we worship God as we ought that's when the nations listen.

I think my greatest moment in business was when the first Southwest airplane arrived after four years of litigation and I walked up to it and I kissed that baby on the lips and I cried.

Look, I grew up in, went to school in, and now live in the American South, and southern white women are interesting, complex and quirky, even the ones with racial anxieties.

We must not let the things we can't do keep us from doing the things we can do.

To saints their very slumber is a prayer.

Heaven's harmony is universal love.