there is no fire without smoke but there is often smoke without fire.

A woman with a mind is fit for any task.

I considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world

It is a deed of greater charity to give a bit of bread to the poor in the time of high prices and famine, than a whole loaf in the time of fertility and abundance.

Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.

If it has to be that wars and battles are begun for many reasons and quarrels, then they should also be avoided and shunned by better and more valid reasons.

Only the dead fail to reach out with both hands.

The foolish rush to end their lives. Only the steadfast soul survives.

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

Poetry's object is truth.

Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?

real silence is silence without words, silence that speak words in silence and silence that talks better than words

I think that if my kids are completely convinced of God's unfailing love for them, whether they fail or not, they'll have confidence to persevere in life

Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.

Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.

My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me.

You can't boycott something you never went to anyway,so why put energy into it?

Wealth is a measure of a person's ability to survive so many days forward.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.

I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn't understand why that would be.