The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

I have no idea how to be an artist and a lover, so I chose the one most likely to make me happy when I'm eighty and gazing back on a long and productive life.

I'm learning that sometimes there are no answers to our questions & sometimes we don't have to understand. Thats part of life and it is ok..

I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.

I go through life with a smile because I know things can be worse than they are.

It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word "human" is "sympathetic." More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

I'm Joan of Arc. I figured we had a lot in common, seeing as how I was almost burned at the stake. And plus she had that close relationship with God.

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat.

Softening what is rigid in our hearts.

Constraints can spur creativity and incite action, as long as you have the confidence to embrace them.