It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.