A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice.
The stupid woman is the one who thinks she doesn’t need any help.
If I had to give a definition of happiness, it would be this: happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn’t have to be validated.
In one way or another, every parent is curious what their children. . . what are they doing when we don't see?. . . What double lives are they leading? Is there something else?
Sometimes things come out of your mouth that you regret later on. Or no, not regret. You say something so razor-sharp that the person you say it to carries it around with them for the rest of their life.
I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind of book I actually want to write.
Around here, we're as happy as God in France.
The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.
As a mother you are only as happy as your saddest child
. . . the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement between the two the whole fortune of his works depend.