Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.

Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.

You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.

If you have an orderly mind, you'll be a winner no matter where you end up. If your mind is a jumble of junk, you'll be a loser. It's as simple as that.

You know, Joey, the medication has helped settle you down, but you have been a good kid all along. You are naturally good. I hope you know that about yourself. You have a good heart.

You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get trapped in the middle, and anyone in the middle just gets squished.' -Grandma

Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.

Don't ever go to war. Even if you win, the battle is never over inside you.

Because each book has its own special perfume.

When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was beaten into a stiff sheet of black ink.

...who proved that you don't have to do what your parents want, or what your boyfriend wants, for you to be happy. You just have to be yourself, for there is no love greater than self love

To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil.

I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand.

I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.

Don't limit your challenges; challenge your limits.

I'm tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.

He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people.

The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine volition and service is with us still.

Gentle and giving-all the rest is treason.

I still get the feeling I got when I started, that's why I'm still doing it after all these years, I still get that full adrenalin rush before I compete.

Games in hand are a good thing only if you win them.