Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.

The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.

Honor is the presence of God in man.

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.

There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.

I felt the sharp sting of emptiness and solitude that you feel so acutely and with such internal sorrow and wonder whenever music is performed well.

I cannot express how lordly and transfigured I felt at that moment. I was a prince of that harbor, a porpoise king - slim among the buoys and the water traffic.

He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart.

To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

I seem to always start a collection by designing outerwear and jackets.

My credit card company says I have an outstanding balance. I'm flattered.

I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.

Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others.

Happiness is more about removing the blocks to Love and remembering who you are than changing your situation or another person.

We have more opportunity than we have us.

Even in writing an annual report, the unconscious plays a role.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.