A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

How can you not love reading? It's wonderful. An excursion, an adventure... an escape from reality.' She adored reading and had a hard time grasping anyone not loving it.

You are the custodian of your own happiness. What other people say, do or think does not create a basis for your happiness. It is you who decides your own happiness, just like forgiveness.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves or on whom she simply depends is want of courage.

The moment somebody says to me "This is very risky " is the moment it becomes attractive to me.

The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.

In death, lie. In living, cry. Carry me home to remember to be remembered.

Generally, I have an instinct for the noncommercial. And the unpopular.

The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.

The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.

There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.