Having been married so many times, I know that one of the few things I am an expert in is falling in love.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

I was upset. I had always believed logic was a universal weapon and now I realized how its validity depended on the way it was employed.

Partial justice may exist with hatred; full justice requires charity.

If you want to produce really horrible, obnoxious kids, say yes to them all the time.

When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.

The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.

For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician - not even a church politician.

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing.

A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch.