The great thing about fashion is that you can create a very unique version of yourself to display to the world.

There is no escaping the fact that want of sympathy condemns us to a corresponding stupidity.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

She was not coldly clever and indirectly satirical, but adorably simple and full of feeling.

Adam noticed Gyp's mental conflict, and though his anger had made him less tender than usual to his mother, it did not prevent him from caring as much as usual for his dog. We are apt to be kinder to the brutes that love us than to the women that love us. Is it because the brutes are dumb? "Go, Gyp; go, lad!" Adam said, in a tone of encouraging command; and Gyp, apparently satisfied that duty and pleasure were one, followed Lisbeth into the house-place.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

You don't want to be wearing tight jeans and a blingy jacket on a 16-hour flight.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

Nothing is so powerful as gentleness nothing is so gentle as true strength.

There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength.