To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.
Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy?
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
When I love most, love is disguised. In hate; and when hate is surprised, in love, then I hate most.
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.
Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never. . . " I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, and paid; had I a son I'd hand 'em on and ram 'em home. What fools we be when young. We fancy we be wise, forgetting that the old boys have graduated in the 'varsity of the world, the greatest 'varsity of all, and each day we should learn from they.
I don't know how to depict intelligence.
People are not perfect. . . very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.
It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L. A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.