Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases

Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind.

We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.

Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence.

A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.

The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.

Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.

I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

Never let stress shape your strategy. Most women think better after a brisk walk, a light meal, a massage and a nap.

He who ascends to mountaintops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below

Consciousness is eternal, and it is part of you.

He who does not see the light in others does not see the light in himself.

Do you love life? Then don’t waste time

I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.

Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.

Change doesn’t happen overnight. It starts with the desire, then one small step in the right direction.

Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

We have none of us seen a form which had not a beginning and will not have an end.

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.