A baby's mother also needs a mother.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

If you count your blessings, you will know, they outnumber your troubles.

Who wanted to make lemonade from lemons, when you could make perfectly good lemonade grenades?

The idea of connecting all people to knowledge and each other is enduring

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.

He grinned, though his face was strained. “That’s it, love. Use me to make yerself feel good.

I have no point in procrastinating any longer.

Reagan's dead, and he was a lousy President.

Every time I overcome an obstacle, it feels like success. Sometimes the biggest ones are in our head - the saboteurs that tell us we can't.

Every living creature that comes into the world has something allotted him to perform; therefore, he should not stand an idle spectator of what others are doing.