We have one life to live - and one chance to live it in the richest way possible.

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.

A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet

And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown’s most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career.

Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.

This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish.

Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize.

Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room.

The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript and suggests changes.

Conservatives like Palin and Reagan and others do seem to love the series, but so do people of all political stripes and backgrounds. I speak about the series' "radiant simplicity."

Do not allow hate to consume you. Live a life of love.

...that's the essence of me - I don't think, I feel - at best, I think-feel...

PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.

Somewhere around twenty-five, bizarre becomes immature.

Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.

There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.

Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.

Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back.

For some people it's real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep something to myself.

Every hour wounds. The last one kills.