Everything in moderation, and there's a perfect balance in this life if we can find it.

Embarrassment has a lot to do with thinking too much. Let it go. Nobody cares as much as you think they do.

Don't allow missed opportunities of the past interfere with the opportunities that are right before you.

Life is not lived in hours, days, or years, but in moments.

Stop living the life with possibilities and probabilities, live the life with certainties.

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas, and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time at least.

Jesus didn't say that if you wanted to follow Him you could do it in a lukewarm manner. He said, 'Take up your cross and follow Me.'

There are some places you love with your heart, and there are some places that you love with your mind- the places that you love with both are called 'libraries'

I think that you should just create if you have the urge to create. There's a lot of other careers you can pursue to seek attention. If people want validation, there are other ways to get that.

Some things we need to talk about, but not here. I'll see you later, darling." "No you won't, nut muffin!

If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself.

Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives.

I am a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards for the world, and it is for us, women in Canada, to set the standards high.