Margaret Mitchell

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

The weird thing about grief, for me at least, was when each of my parents died, for a year or two afterwards I was pretty wildly brave - just willing to take life on.

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

Violent ideologies can proliferate and spread; threats are no longer contained by borders and oceans; and adversaries are as likely to be found in cyberspace as on the battlefield.