Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Fortune favors the audacious.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

When Rip Torn dies - heaven forbid - but when he dies, you'll only have to write RIP Torn.

I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

The strong smells I remember are all floral. There's nothing like a farm rose to take you back to the mountains and the meadows. I'm a mountain girl, a meadow girl, so I feel very close to that.

The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.

I am deeply saddened by the tragic loss of my dear friend Ronni Chasen. I have had the honor of working with her for over 15 years. She was one of a kind. I loved her. I miss her.

Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.

Write more. That's the advice I would give myself.

Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in New Orleans on Mardi Gras = bad idea!

You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would.