After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Be you, love you. All ways, always.

If everything in this world was in constant decay, why expend so much energy gnashing my teeth over work?

Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book!

My hair does get really frizzy, so I use a de-frizzing serum from Bumble and Bumble, and also Moroccan Oil is some really good stuff. Plus, I can't live without my Burt's Bees lip balm!

I've always said you have to go through a lot of heartache in life to feel joy.

I deny that either singers or conductors can "create" or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss.

One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members.

I cannot dance, O Lord, unless You lead me.

I am not receiving orders from Ariel Sharon.

Far out of sight forever stands the sea, Bounding the land with pale tranquillity.