When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease.

Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

Men fight wars. Women win them.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue

I believe the world only gives us what we seek to find.

Only this much needs to be known: If you separate ‘I’ and ‘my’, you will have known all the scriptures! Then the whole universe will be known to you!

Funny way to spend your life, though, studying another chap's versifying.

Dance your pain, sing your sorrows, because there is nothing else tomorrow.

Peace is the first thing the angels sang.

Information is the #resolution of uncertainty.

Fear overrides all rational thinking

You might be a redneck if your handkerchief doubles as your shirt sleeve.

Each moment is a moment of choice and your commitments keep you true to yourself, choice by choice.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.