I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

With God, the impossible is not an obstacle but an invitation.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now hold your ground and later win a little more.

Someone once told me that the '…Baby One More Time' video should be me as a superhero fighting a giant robot monster.

Nearly unable to bear the thought of how much he needed her quiet strength, he closed his eyes and leaned his forehead against the cold glass.

It is a little surprising given the strength of the economy that there is a perception - at least among some of the public - that the economy is not very good.

A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.

Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.

You don't necessarily have to go a long way in New Zealand to be in some pretty dense and scary bush.

The foundation of authority is based upon the consent of the people.