You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself.

Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.

Happy is entirely up to you and always has been.

The key to happiness - as any good fairy godmother will tell you - is not to avoid problems, but to overcome them.

What was God thinking when he created a guy this handsome? He wasn't a gift to womankind, he was a torture device.

Sometimes love not only lifts you to the ceiling, it also keeps your eyes there.

I don't care what you Yanks say, cheese should not whiz.

Beauty has a persuasive power all its own.

Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible.

I didn't bother to explain about the glitter in my hair. I figured they could think it was a family trait. We all glittered, just like the Cullens in Twilight.

Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

As she’d walked along this street, a million stars stretched across an indigo canvas, holding all the freedom she’d yearned for every night.

Life is a question, to live it positively is the Answer

I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

Ultimately, my daughter is not going to learn from what I do, not from what I say. For better or for worse. I see that everyday.

Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?

There is no doubt that the life one leads, and the thoughts one thinks are registered plainly in his face.

A man who's intoxicated all the time doesn't need sympathy.