When there are doubters, it always fuels the fire a little bit. When people say you can't do something, if you are a competitor, that drives you.
Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.
Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples.
There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.
The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.
The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.
It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.
Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is frightened, wedged, or cornered. Story greases the hoists and pulleys, it causes adrenaline to surge, shows us the way out, down, or up, and for our trouble, cuts for us fine wide doors in previously blank walls, openings that lead to the dreamland, that lead to love and learning, that lead us back to our own real lives as knowing wildish women.
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.