Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.

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.

Don't just Hurry, don't just Haste. Don't just Worry, don't just Waste. Life is a Treasure, Enjoy the Pleasure.- RVM

A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world.

I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.

In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?

It's hard to deny talent. If you're good, you're good.