Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.

Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability.

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.