The empty nest is underrated.

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.

Publish a book before you’re too old to read it without glasses.

I will follow anyone... and remind everyone... of the pain of the Yazidi women

Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.

My favorite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.

We are good if our peers think we’re great. But we are great if the real world thinks we’re good.

Never give up hope, spring will come.

Perhaps, she says (Madame de la Rougierre), Other souls than human are sometimes born into the world & clothed in human flesh.

Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

Before I knew what was happening, I had a fistful of spears around my neck like a collar. I could have shaved myself with one sneeze.