"Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good."

"Disgust with dirt can be so great that it prevents us from cleaning ourselves - from 'justifying' ourselves."

"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life."

"Woman was God's second mistake."

"A profession is the backbone of life."

"Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt."

"I have learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved, the rest is up to them."

"Woman has suffered for eons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite perseverance."

"Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone."

"The impossible is often the untried."

"Labels try to make you say what they want or write the songs they think you should write. [Johnny] Cash did his own thing."

"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children"