When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.

To love and win is the best thing.To love and lose, the next best.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

This is not the place!

Cunning proceeds from want of capacity.

Feminist objectivity means quite simply situated knowledges

It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.'

Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

I don't think the American people want unilateral government control over the entire health-care system.

It takes more strength to cry, admit defeat. I have truth on my side, you only have deceit.

Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.

There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything.

The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.