The problem with living so long is that you see too many people pass before you.

I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.

You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.

the human body is a miniature version of the universe - the eyes and ears are the sun and moon, breath is air, blood is rain.

By the time you become an expert at marriage, it is too late to start a new one.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

My caddie dared me to try it, but I didn't think it was worth losing a ball.

How do you tell a child that she was born to be hurt?

You can't really have like high end designers for everything.

My favorite love scenes in movies don't involve passion, they involve nobility or sacrifice.

The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

I haven't had any plastic surgery - despite what people think, this is my nose. I have had Restylane and Botox, but I don't think of that as plastic surgery any more.