Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal.

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle." We all are. Everyone.

You breathe in and out; you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you're able to put one foot in front of the other.

I'm always in love. If it's not with a man, it's something else. I love beauty. I love the sky I see outside the window. There's so much beauty in the world.

You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.

If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.

To be happy--one must find one's bliss

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.

...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

Everyone is poor in one way or another, so there is no need to worry of where you belong, we are all rich and poor at the same time.

You have to let go before you can reach.

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

I may be a princess, but I'm definitely not a drama queen.

I think the biggest problem we have is taking too long over things. Not in terms of getting it right, but sometimes we do things quickly that are really good.

I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

The sound of life has divine silence.

I like someone who doesn't take life too seriously. I hate people who are a bit uptight.

It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth