One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!

You do not become a leader because people follow you. Rather, people tend to follow you because you have leadership qualities. The journey of leadership often starts alone.

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

It's difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them.

We came to serve God and to get rich, as all men wish to do.

Someone like myself is not from one place. I am in total identification with the New York, French, and Palestine experience and do not stop at the borders of identity.

I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men.

Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

I'd like to be an architect. That would be cool. I like drawing.