It isn't the initial cost of a lie, it is the upkeep which counts so terribly.

Tragedy is chic but discontent is dowdy.

You'd be surprised to know how many heartaches, how many bitter disappointments, how many disasters that seem final when they come, we learn to survive and in time even to forget.

Marriage has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation as to how things shall be divided. (from "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine")

When you stand next to beauty and know you’re not, you either feel inferior or you’re thankful for the ones who saw you and loved you anyway.

It is always too late, or too little, or both. And that is the road to disaster.

If someone doesn't like another artist's song, that's their prerogative. But now it's kind of scary, and I never thought of it that way! But I love the challenge and feeling fear.

I love every aspect of the performing arts and can't imagine myself doing anything different. I give my heart to every project.

Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

Records are made to be broken. It is in man's nature to continue to strive to do just that.

If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.

My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.

I have nothing more to give you than my heart. Spanish saying Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be earned.