Things change, and not always for the better.

But we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.

Her beauty might fascinate men, but it was difficult to charm them when she stood mute. . . .

I don't think unhappiness is fated.

I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.

You will never have to marry for money. You will never have to depend on anyne but yourself.

I always thought the purpose of time was to move forward, not backward.