There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife.
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.