It is a stupid presumption to go about despising and condemning as false anything that seems to us improbable; this is a common fault in those who think they have more intelligence than the crowd.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman

Capitalism is a social system where the health and security of a nation are compromised for corporate gain.

Wake up! Be yourself, not a bad copy of something else!

If you want to be happy, be wary of focusing on past events and do your best to live in the present.

Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.

I really try to write as an ordinary person would, not as someone who's too sophisticated about food, or too knowledgeable about things.

I really wanted to study with Bruce Goff [one of the masters of "organic architecture"] at the University of Oklahoma.

In my world love is the only law. I do not ask for love, I give it.

Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.