Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.

People like you to be something, preferably what they are.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high colored magical confusion takes permanent hold...Surely Texas is such a place.

That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis.

Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.

His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.