I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!

A kiss is a lovely trick to stop speech.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.

Give me an hour and I'll make a lifetime out of it.

I regret the things I didn't do, not what I did.

I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up.

A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Hope is a little candle that continues to flicker in the heart in the darkest moments of impossibility.

Even when you are lazy and don't have the effort to learn something sit somewhere in public and try to observe the stupid people around you, that would be more than enough learning for the day.

Even though she would dream of love, respect, and unfettered romance... it was a cyclical dilemma in her life that she seemed to be most attracted to poisonous men.

Wisdom often comes from those with the least to lose.

I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.

We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.

I didn't try and say anything terribly meaningful. I'm definitely not a social commentator at all.

For a moment he thought she was about to hit him, which would have been bad, or even start crying, which would have been much, much worse.

The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.

I am very far from practicing what I understand.