I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

A woman's health is her capital.

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as though you couldn't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

Learn to convert the discomfort of discipline into the satisfaction of personal growth.

As women and young girls, we have to invest that time in getting to understand who we are and liking who we are.

My faith helped me stay grounded in defeat and victory, to not get too excited about the successes and too low about the failures.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.