"You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me"

"Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody"

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body"

"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin"

"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom"

"The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out"

"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake"

"If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts"

"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles"