I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life and not too long to be downed by them.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

There is no victory without pain.

Our worst misfortunes never happen and most miseries lie in anticipation.

You've got to be willing to stay committed to someone over the long run and sometimes it doesn't work out. But often if you become real honest with yourself and honest with each other and put aside...

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories for all our differences turn out if we listen well to be our stories also.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labour.

He who shuns the millstone shuns the meal.

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words.

Woman's place is in the wrong.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.

It is wealth to be content.

Virtue is health vice is sickness.

Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

The present is the necessary product of all the past the necessary cause of all the future.

Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.

By-and-by never comes.