And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.

I guess I was a mom so late in life my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Yes Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.

The greater intellect one has the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Resolved that the women of this nation in 1876 have greater cause for discontent rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly as we wake or sleep we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed for if you merely offend them they take vengeance but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

If we are marked to die we are enough to do our country loss and if to live the fewer men the greater share of honor.