In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.

Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.

There are no ugly ducklings.

Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.

A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.

A charming woman is a busy woman.

I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.

How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love's beginning.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

Everyone is a flux - so it's good to suspend judgements forever.

When it turned on the Jew, Christianity and European civilization turned on the incarnation - albeit an incarnation often wayward and unaware - of its own best hopes.

Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.

We realize we can't have everything, and so begins the mad dash to have everything else.