When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.

I believe in the power of subtlety in storytelling.

The difference between an ordeal and an adventure is your attitude.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

你必须愿意为成就伟大而承受痛苦。

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.