"I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him."

“We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.”

“The problem is, when you depend on a substitute for love, you can never get enough.”

Source : Louis Cozolino (2014). “The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain (Second Edition) (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)”, p.126, W. W. Norton & Company

“It is never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest.”

“A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.”

Source : "Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History". Book by Fawn M. Brodie, ch. 1, 1974.

“I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.”

“You ask why I make my home n the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet: it lives in the other world which no one owns. The peach trees blossom, The water flows.”

“The second you stop questioning yourself is the second that you become the monster. -Merry”

“I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.”