You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.
Everybody should believe in something; I believe I'll have another drink.
Courage is the integrating strength that causes one to overcome tragedy.
I survived. (J'ai vecu.)
Doing what is right isn't the problem; it's knowing what is right.
To do all that one is able to do is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do is to be a god.
Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him that nature might stand up
Power is the recognition of necessity.
Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
Where I am today has everything to do with the years I spent hanging on to a career by my fingernails.
This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
The Englishman loves to roll his tongue around the word, 'extraordinary'. It so pleases him that he is reluctant to finish the sound which goes on into harmonics and overtones. The North American publisher is likewise inclined.
I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.