When I was your age I knew nothing about the world or my place in it. I figured I'd be someone's wife, then someone's mother. It never occurred to me to be someone myself.

The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.

When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.

I am not plain, or average or - God forbid - vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge and a cherry on top.

As long as you know who you are, and see what makes you happy, it doesn't matte how others see you

I’ve gotta get out of the basement. I’ve gotta see the world. I’ve gotta make a difference

An old fashioned outfit is not a costume, it's a comedy.

If women were as good as men they'd be a lot better!

Trustworthy friends are very hard to come by, and when they do, be sure to keep them without a single hesitation.

Against Self-PityIt gets you nowhere but deeper intoyour own shit--pure misery a luxuryone never learns to enjoy.

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

Romantic music really stirs my soul. And, of course, I love Chinese music it makes me feel closer to home.

The long nights that Pier Giorgio Frassati spent on his knees in front of the Blessed Sacrament had something to do with the long days spent in service of the poor.

I think that's just a general English attitude [being abusive]. I did the same thing to famous people.

Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?" "Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.