Margaret Mitchell

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

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

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

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.

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

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.