The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

It's not as bad as it sounds.