Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

I support Real Madrid. I’m a big fan of Cristiano Ronaldo.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Feminism… I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, ‚Free to be You and Me.‘

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.