I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
Getting angry doesn't solve anything.
I would like to be remembered as someone who accomplished useful deeds, and who was a kind and loving person. I would like to leave the memory of a human being with a correct attitude and who did her best to help others.
The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale.
I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets.
When at last I took the time to look into the heart of a flower, it opened up a whole new world; a world where every country walk would be an adventure, where every garden would become an enchanted one.
I am basically a feminist. I think that women can do anything they decide to do.
I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us, as when they are wrought into the heart, through the ground-work of a story which engages the passions: Is it that we are like iron, and must first be heated before we can be wrought upon?
Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.
One effect of benefit-cost analysis is to give any respectable engineer or economist a means for justifying almost any kind of project the national government wants to justify. . . Exclusive reliance on benefit-cost analysis has been one of the greatest threats to wise decisions in water development.
Mothers always think their children are prettier than they really are, and mine has always told me I look like Tom Cruise.