In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

God is my shelter.

When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch.

Key message to all patients: Let go of all negativity and empower your body through your positivity.

All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.

Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage.

My career never suffered from my not being skinny. I never did catwalk work because I was always too big. I couldn't get the clothes over my hips.

all the gods are the same unknowable mystery, just as each face of a jewel strikes light in a different direction

Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.

There are infinite possibilities.

It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.