Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.

There is greater clarity in the still waters of sadness, something not found in the babbling brooks of more sought after emotions.

Writing is a great way of talking with an endless audience for never-ending time.

Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong

Weakness is not a characteristic you want to share with the world

The few trees still upright were stripped of their branches, lonely flagpoles without a nation to claim them.

I saw...a kid on a leash. You seen these people? Kid on a leash? How horrible. Put him in the pound where he belongs.

Satan called - he's changed the sheets, fluffed the pillows and laid out the complimentary chocolate. Hell is ready for John Edwards.

What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know