In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work

Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind.

We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.

Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence.

A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.

Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases

The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.

Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.

I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

Never let stress shape your strategy. Most women think better after a brisk walk, a light meal, a massage and a nap.

Life is a beautiful thing. Plant it in the ground, and it blooms into opportunity, capice?

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

We really depend on viruses for our complete survival.

I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.

So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.

Hollywood is weird, man. The child-actor world is the weirdest. But somehow I survived.

Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good, or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle, but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront.

Equality of opportunity is the essence of social justice.

He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy.