The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.
Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
Pretty women and rich men are rarely wrong.
Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.
We women take love too seriously. Men wish to be loved with laughter, not with sighing. So laugh, sweetheart, laugh, or soon you may be weeping.
Nothing grows among its pinnacles; there is no shade except under great toadstools of sandstone whose bases have been eaten to the shape of wine glasses by the wind. Everything is flaking, cracking, disintegrating, wearing away in the long, inperceptible weather of time. The ash of ancient volcanic outbursts still sterilizes its soil, and its colors in that waste are the colors that flame in the lonely sunsets on dead planets.
Sometimes the first step is the hardest: coming up with an idea. Coming up with an idea should be like sitting on a pin-it should make you jump up and do something.
Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.
There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people will never be happy dealing with me, because I don't conform.