Just ask yourself, if we weren't taught to be women, what would we be? (Ask yourself this question even if you're a man, and don't cheat by changing the words.)

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.

The sunset you see is always better than the one you don’t. More stars are always better than less.

Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.

When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.

Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.

In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.

No Utopia is Utopia for everyone

I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.

She was my friend and I loved her and relied on her, even though there were days when her moodiness and fragility frightened me, because they reminded me of my own tenuous grasp on life.

Let's be honest: the trappings of investment banking are quite tempting. I do miss it sometimes. And to be honest, there was a time I'd read the 'WSJ' in the morning, and for years I have done that.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

They've been so bloody ruthless that you almost get no choice in the matter.

He who accounts all things easy will have many difficulties.

Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

Hit them. Fight them. They are cursed; they are evil.

I think that the boy-woman is a very strong image and a lot of fascinating women are like that: Gala [Dalí].

I will punish the hammer and turn him into a mallet.

To vegetate you don't need to read!