The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

Live with a mission

Wishes only come true to those who work relentlessly.

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.

Mission + tools. That’s really what it takes to have focus...you fail at focus because whatever you are trying to focus on isn’t important enough to you.

Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.

I believe deeply that every one of us has an individual talent or trait that can be used to make a difference in some way.

Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.

Donald Trump is going to work on infrastructure, building the wall. He's going to farm leaders.

Do what you need to do and if it hurts too much obviously don't do it.

Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy.