The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Belief and faith have nothing to do with each other. Beliefs are the manifestation of fear whereas faith comes from courage.

Nothing that you confess... can make me love you any less.

Arrogance is shown in one's respect to the truth.

Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.

Inventory discipline across the brands coupled with an outstanding holiday performance at Victoria's Secret led to a 36 percent increase in fourth-quarter earnings per share at Limited Inc.

My mind becomes tired, and perhaps some of yours do. If so, go and exercise your bodies.

I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason.

I ordinarily do one film a year and the rest of the time I'm at home with the kids. Even when I am working I'm still basically at home and with the kids. I've never left them to go to work.

Art is life, life is art - the question is what came first?

One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.