There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,--one's self and one's other self.

Always have old memories, and young hopes.

Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.

Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?

The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console as.

Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters.

The heart is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved in youth.

Whoever embarks with women embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats.

Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.

The Parisienne is not in fashion, she is fashion.

Have you not sometimes seen happiness? Yes, the happiness of others.

The most important gift anyone can give a girl is a belief in her own power as an individual, her value without reference to gender, her respect as a person with potential.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?

I want to try different genres. I think I'll still be looking at a strong female character in the center, and identity struggle and transformation.

Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we need to move the very stars to pity.

Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.

Aioli epitomizes the heat, the power, and the joy of the Provencal sun, but it has another virtue -- it drives away flies.

God is love and if you are ready, he always is.

Where magic is concerned, there is always an initial decision, an initial willingness to let it enter your life. If that is not there neither is magic.

My shirt got torn in a fight. Yours evidently has a fast-release tab.