“People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.”

“Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves.”

“I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.”

“I may have been dead for the past hundred and fifty years, Susannah,… but that doesn't mean I don't know how people say good night. And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.”

“The atmosphere of desperate, ignorant terror essential to healthy rumors seeps away, replaced by a silent, wary paranoia. People bunker down, jealously keeping what they know, which is nothing, to themselves.”

“I love women who don't let themselves be tamed. Those who scratch and bite, but know how to love.”

“Empower the useless people who do not know how to empower themselves. That is the beginning of change and progress.”

“80% of people's problems are about how they feel about themselves.”

“People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused.”

“How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves.”