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 strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.