Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

The horror had begun.

Seldom do we think about how seldom we think.

We are all ONE, no matter in what form, space or time. As ONE we can change the world if we start changing ourselves.

Love leaves a memory nobody can take away from you.

[Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism.

I was the first f****** hippy to enter this business, you know... I was one of the first girls to say I don't give a f*** about this whole supermodel thing.

I've said it in the past and I'll say it again today: the vote is precious; it's almost sacred.

You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans - it's up to you.

When we make mistakes, we can use the process of NVC mourning and self-forgiveness to show us where we can grow instead of getting caught up in moralistic self-judgments.

It takes 42 muscles to smile. Instead pick up your middle finger and say "bite me!