The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement...Of course, He could have built it to last longer but you can't have everything.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.

Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

I was constantly being dragged out of movies for laughing too loud.

Peace and trust take years to build and seconds to shatter.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

in order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good, otherwise they can't do it.

I kept it to remind me that although there is evil, there is sometimes beauty and light. You, Jillian. You were always my light.

I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.

We all know that education unlocks the door of opportunity for the young.

I don't know lots of things but I know this: next year when spring flows over the starting point I'll think I'm going to drown in the shimmering miles of it.

An arrow may not be a shocklance, yet it can still kill you.

We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.

O horror! Horror! Horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee!