I believe that only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.

Love has the power to hold the whole universe together.

I live my life in faith as I explore and challenge myself and others.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

My father was prime minister, and to take care of his home, to be his hostess, automatically meant to have my hands in politics - to meet people, to know their games, their secrets.

A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows

Do a good job on a good film and you're on the map. Do a great job on a bad movie and not very many people will think of you.

From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

Carrying a grudge is difficult work that brings nothing of value. Forgive, and be free.

I hate it when people come up to me when I'm eating.