Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negotiation with 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.

The beauty of compassion is free, and everyone is welcome to it.

Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.

If you show a poetry professor your shiny new multiple choice teaching technology, he will invite you to exit his office.

What are they going to do, shoot me? It's not war you know.

Though the ancients were ignorant of the principles of Christianity there were in them the germs of its spirit.

Stop focusing on what you cant do, focus on what God can do.

Where there is love, there is God also.

When you invent something, there will always be people to criticise. God's creation is full of critics, but has God given up His creation because of the critics?

This life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant.

The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.