I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

“If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.”

Death is nothing to us; when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.

To think is easy. To act is hard.

Where is this heaven? You have not even the power to see one grain of sand here. Can you see this earth of ours? The earth appears to us to be stationary, and the sun seems to go round us; but if we could get away from our earth, and look down from the sun upon it, we should see that it is moving round the sun in a circle, and that the sun is standing still. So it is with our conceptions of heaven and hell; they are not real, but only human conceptions.

It's during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.