One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older. I am, in fact, at this very moment gaining my looks.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.

He was the safe place I would go when the world became shaky, he would either guide me through the dark or awaken my sense to appreciate my light.

You know who you are and what you are capable of, because of your own personal history and the experiences you gained throughout that history.

Sadly, when a person's possessions distract him from his purpose, he usually ends up losing both.

A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.

Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to be left in the past.

For an American president to be aiding America's enemy in developing nuclear weapons technology is unprecedented, absolutely.

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true.

The Ego is a transparent mental image: You, the physical person as a whole, look right through it. You do not see it. But you see with it.