Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being.

Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

When diplomacy ends, War begins.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

I think understanding that you matter inspires gratitude and loving action.