Alas! we must suffer ourselves before we can feel for others.

Excessive suffering brings with it a kind of dull insensibility and stupor....

...chance is sometimes a wonderful accomplice in crime.

Vengeance is a delicious fruit, which must be allowed to ripen in order that it may be fully enjoyed.

To find yourself again and again, get lost in true love.

Revolve your world around the customer and more customers will revolve around you.

As I have gotten older, I am more of an independent woman, and my mom and I have our own lives, but we are still best friends and can be there for each other.

M dad was a boxer, so he had this fierce, physical presence.

What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

The practical effect of Christianity is happiness, therefore let it be spread abroad everywhere!

Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.

Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.

Don't just think, do.

I may not be a pin-up, but I'm one hell of a boxer.