Saying "yes" to yourself means acknowledging what you have that's good and working on the things that aren't.

You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or foe depends on how you use it

People who concentrate on giving good service always get more personal satisfaction as well as better business. How can we get better service? One way is by trying to see ourselves as others do.

You like me not because I like you. I like you just because I like me.

In war, the first casualty is truth.

It's been six months since she died. But Ove still inspects the whole house twice a day to feel the radiators and check that she hasn't sneakily turned up the heating.

And we're finally home.

Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do

Ah me, thou Destiny, Giver of evil gifts.

Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?-are not questions with an answer but questions that open us up to new questions which lead us deeper into the unshakeable mystery of existence.

I will never be a waif. I want to market myself as a healthy-looking woman who is an action-star kind of girl.

Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy.

Celebrity doesn't really affect the work. What affects the work is the expectations from the outside. This is what no one understands.