It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.