Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.
Conventions are often more cruel than the law.
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce heart. The black side stands still with cunning, hiding its gold between the trees, seeing and not being seen, waiting patiently for things to come. I did not learn to use my black side until after the bad man left me.
If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.
We cannot succeed when half of us are held back. We call upon our sisters around the world to be brave, to embrace the strength within themselves and realize their full potential.