I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood, as far as love and merriment go.

The problem with people is that they try to do everything but don't do one thing well. Focus more energy on the activity you excel in. Capitalize on your strengths.

She'd thought there was no greater connection than destiny decreeing them joined. But there was - the choice they'd made to love each other.

Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success.

I like sarcasm. I like snark.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.

By the end of Fashion Week my apartment is covered with makeup and clothes and shoes. Everything you can think of.

Sometimes suffering is just suffering,” she told Gus. “It doesn't make you stronger. It doesn't build character. It only hurts.

I can't speak for others, but I find the fundamental idea that a life worth living is one during which one strives every day to become a better person to be compelling.

With sixty professors there are roughly eighteen hundred pairs of professors. Out of that many pairs it was not surprising that there were some whose members did not like one another.