Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.

I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream.

Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.

It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid.

There is no solution to death.Life intends to kill us.

Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.