I had the most beautiful set of theories you ever knew when I started out as a schoolma'am, but every one of them has failed me at some pinch or another.

We can't always take the most obvious road in life.

I went looking for my dreams outside of myself and discovered, it's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it.

But if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't.

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair... People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.

Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

November is usually such a disagreeable month as if the year had suddenly found out she was growing old and could do nothing but weep and fret over it.

Oh, I know I'll improve. It's just that my life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes now. That's a sentence I read once, and I say it over to comfort myself in these times that try the soul.

No matter where I go or how I change, I'll always be your Anne. Anne of Green Gables.

I just love bright red drinks!

I can't eat. I can never eat when I'm in the depths of despair.

I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.

People often say that stress is a motivator. What we're referring to when we say this is really better described as stimulation and engagement.

See people for who they're becoming. Not who they were.

The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday.

It is always said that Europe is a project of the elite. That's incorrect.

I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

There are enough people who are starting to be actively involved that we can turn things around. And we need to encourage others to become involved.

...I loved to dance in studios, but not necessarily on stage. What I loved was to sweat and to feel every single pore open up

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country.