Margaret Deland

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

Convictions do not imply reasons.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.