When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

All believers are called to be holy in mind, body, and spirit (1 Peter 1:15).

Now that we know about his indigestion, we can torture him with cake.

I don't take too many things too seriously.

Each moment that passes changes you...You can't even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.

I think if you can be a goal-setting person, it makes it easier to stay motivated.

We all need to take a deep breath and think about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I'd go out and have a couple of drinks too.

I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses.

You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.