There are two types of people in this world - those who would appear on reality television and the rest of us.

It seems you haven't really become a success until you have as many people as possible condemning you.

What does Christmas mean if we can't encourage small children to sit on a stranger's lap?

Why write stories? To join the conversation.

The most dangerous enemy is not the one who lingers behind you in the shadows, but the one who walks beside you as a friend.

I have a very classic take on fashion. I like my accessories to pop, but in general, my style is pretty classic.

There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.

There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once.

And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her eyes, wishes more than anything to be unwakened by what she cannot name?

If there is a panacea, or cure-all to life, it is self love.

Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference, that nothing was going to make me happy.

Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.

O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.