I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

The best accessory for a woman - handsome man!

Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

It's not the appearance, it's the essence. It's not the money, it's the education. It's not the clothes, it's the class.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genre--the novel designed on purpose to be excludedfrom the Booker short-list.

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.

Noble friends and companions are the whole of the holy life.

Marine protected areas, and particularly no-take zones, are very effective in allowing regeneration of fish stocks.

Health and healing will follow fasting.

You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser.

Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf.

In the spiritual life only one thing produces genuine joy and that is obedience.

A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.

We, some cast members and I, even went on a weekend trip together and spent the weekend at an inn, because we enjoy each other's company so much, and it was so cool.