Love isn't an emotion or an instinct--it's an art.

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct--it's an art.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days].

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days].

To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.

To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.

We can do no great things; only small things with great love.

We can do no great things; only small things with great love.

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in read more

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other read more

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.