In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

Dovresti imparare a non avere paura.

If no one loved, the sun would go out.

If you never stop trying you'll never give up. If you never give up you'll never stop trying.

The process of communication with the afterlife - more of an exchange than a conversation - has always fascinated me.

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.

Any true revival can be proven by the fact that it changed the moral climate of an area or nation.

I care about being paid fairly for what I do. When I approach a project, I put my whole heart and soul into it. Because I really care about it.

The truth is that the sole reason we don’t see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder.

May our lives be born from the beauty of darkness, and shine with the possibility of light.