Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.

If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.

People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.

Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn't take anything drastic. You needn't be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!

Everyone comes to this world with one great purpose. That is to serve others.

For many young women, the dream of independence and a home of their own is a tantalising goal, while a lifetime devoted solely to catering for another person's needs would be hard to countenance.

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else.

The book says we may be through with the past but the past ain't through with us.

Speak your heart. If they don't understand, the message was never meant for them anyway.

Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.