Quotes
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
Be fair with others, but then keep after them until they're fair with you.
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us-and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.
Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
Love is a great beautifier.
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
It takes two flints to make a fire.