I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love.

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Obstinate, headstrong girl!

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Having a positive attitude gives you power. This isn't the same kind of power that dictators and warlords seek after, but rather a spiritual power. It's a power that comes to us from God.

Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.

Thank you, Jane Birkin, for providing me with infinite outfit ideas and the confidence to dress like a boy but act like a girl.

Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.

For 50 percent of Americans marriage is forever, for the rest of us there is another adventure.

Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.

Love is the smallest part of gallantry.

In love-making, as in other arts, those who do it best cannot tell how it is done.

Stormy Weather is really wonderful - it ought to be required reading for everyone who is concerned about our planet's climate, beginning in every high school in the country.

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.