Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

People who keep journals have life twice

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Some people need a super hero to save them, but I am my own super hero. All I need is myself, my strengths and the fiery passions in my heart to overcome the obstacles in my life.

It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous

It is amazing what people feel they have the right to tell you to your face when you're famous.

I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the catwalk is hot from the oven.

Life is a challenge. Realize that and work, every day, to rise up and meet it.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

In our hearts those of us who know anything worth knowing know that in March a new year begins, and if we plan any new leaves, it will be when the rest of Nature is planning them too.

I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.

The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.

Adversity can strengthen you if you have the will to grind it out.