A good rule for mental conduct—think whatever it makes you truly happy to think.

It's a funny thing, how much time we spend planning our lives. We so convince ourselves of what we want to do, that sometimes we don't see what we're meant to do.

Dying has a funny way of making you see people, the living and the dead, a little differently. Maybe that's just part of the grieving, or maybe the dead stand there and open our eyes a bit wider.

No is a complete sentence and so often we forget that. When we don't want to do something we can simply smile and say no. We don't have to explain ourselves, we can just say 'No.'

I am Living proof that you don't have to be an insider to be knowledgeable about Fashion and have an impact on the industry.

Your own shortcomings are the best ground to grow your sense of humor.

As for women who were pretty, intelligent, strikingly sensual, the daughters of rich families—they would only have served to disrupt my carefully ordered existence

She knows what it is to be sad and miserable, but those emotions are almost enjoyable. They throw moments of happiness and laughter into sharper relief.

No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.

There are so many different ways, most of them helpful and legal, to get yourself into a state of mind where writing is possible. It's going to be different for each person.

Maybe I am becoming a hermit, opening the door for only a few special animals? Maybe my skull is too crowded and it has no opening through which to feed it soup?

Close your eyes and stare into the dark.

Pray that God will open the doors you can't open and close the doors that need to be closed.

There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.