Phyllis Bottome

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.

To be in the right is often an expensive business.

Well, let me tell you, after three years of Obama, we are hopeless and changeless, and we need Mitt Romney to bring us back, to bring America back.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.