If my father was the head of our house, my mother was its heart.

Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still, real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.

Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning tomorrow.

Great thoughts come from the heart.

...clatter of a typwriter suggests that you're actually building something.

Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.

Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one.

I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.

This is why I decided to work with Nike, too, because it is even more mass-market than Givenchy and could make entry-price shoes and make people dream to be part of the journey.

If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.