Theres gonna be times in life when people tell you that you can't, thats when you just gotta turn around and say watch me.
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.
Men fight wars. Women win them.
Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.
My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourself to armed multitudes for fear of treachery; but I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. . . . I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a King of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any Prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm.
Nothing positive at all in my life came from my marriage, I can tell you that.
Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.
When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum.