One of life's contradictions: how human beings were at once entirely resilient and impossibly fragile. One decision could stay with you forever, and yet you could live through almost anything.

Someone could save your life without you ever knowing it. It happened more than most people realized.

The moment a woman was born determined so much of who she was allowed to become.

Now she saw that marriage was like being in a three-legged race with the same person for the rest of your life. Your hopes, your happiness, your luck, your moods, all yoked to his.

She had learned over time that to know anything was bearable. It was secrecy that could not be borne.

It was amazing that you did not become your grief entirely, and walk about leaking it everywhere.

Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.

Right now, there is a stronger, more vibrant, more inspired version of you that is wanting and waiting to emerge.

Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.

I love that [ late-50s Verve recordings] - to me, that's the epitome of vocal jazz. It's my favorite style and era of it.

People think I'm smarter than I am.

Look at me as many times as you wish, but you won’t get to know me! Since you have last seen me, I’ve changed a hundred times!

Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.

If we stay in one place, we will become outdated

France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.