Tell your father I never wanted to be a rose, only ever a night-scented gilliflower, and his moon was my sun.

Before giving up, try hard.

I have no riches but richer thoughts.

Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

I got dead bodies rotting in my Benz trunk. Trunk of funk, I call it.

'Live and let life' used to be a noble approach to life. Now you're considered compassionate if you demand that government impose your preferences on others.

Opposites attract - and then aggravate.

Dreams, goals, ambitions - these are the stuff man uses for fuel.

I love every second of being a mom.

Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.

The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.