"Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance."

“The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the distempered mind of those who traduce and injure us.”

“Everything happens for a reason and, something better will come along for me!”

“As for myself, there are two things I dread, - death and marriage. I must die, but I need not marry. I have sworn I will never be taken alive.”

Source : Molly Elliot Seawell (1899). “The sprightly romance of Marsac”

“We look at the one little woman's face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see all sorts of answers to our own yearnings.”

“I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.”

“I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.”

“Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.”

“The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.”