Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?

It doesn't matter where you've been, only where you are going.

We can reach the goal but it is going to take an incredible amount of time and effort

I have always understood that money made in the patent medicine business is a practical bar to social success.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything.

With love one can live even without happiness.

I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.

Even the proudest spirit can be broken with love.

An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live.