Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.

Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.

those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.

Maybe we judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.

I love you, I thought. But I didn't say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face. She was far too kind for that. My fear was a greater one - that she won't say it back.

I am a princess. I do not follow fashions--I make them.

People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don't even notice anymore.

Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.

Good to know: Doctors can't cure you of being a beast.

What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.

A beautiful thing is precious no matter the price

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.

The sound of loneliness makes me happier.

You can't become tempted if you just give in a little quicker.

In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well.

Different minds incline to different objects; one pursues the vast alone, the wonderful, the wild; another sighs for harmony and grace, and gentlest beauty.

Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. So much sin could be avoided if our people really loved their homes.

Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.