Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.