I am hard on myself. But isn't it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn't it better to break it yourself?

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.

For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.

You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions.

How many times can our emotions be tied to someone else's - be pulled and stretched and twisted - before they snap? Before they can never be mended again?

I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.

Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice.

Life isn't about what you get, it's about what you DO with what you get.

I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I'm not sure why we have to grow up and get embarrassed about it.

Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.

A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.

As outsiders looking in, my readers and I must reform how we think so we may open ourselves to new forms of knowledge.

What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.

Children need to know that the things that make them vastly different from one another are the very things that make them beautifully special.

It was right that she was now staying at the ranch. She belonged there.

She found herself too visible in silence

Rick Santorum has come out against contraception and against college. He wants us literally to be f**king stupid.

If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends.

I have achieved a lot and I'm grateful for that - I'm just a bit greedy because I want to add the Olympics. It's once every four years - everyone wants it and very few people get it.

Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.

I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money.