You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

Live knowing that your choices today will create your tomorrow. Every action you make to improve yourself will improve your life. Little by little. Try.

The thinnest thing in the world is the border between good and evil... my next The Opposite Of Magic.

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.

Of all things there remains to me only honor and life which is safe.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.

Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.

Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.

It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.