The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Sometimes it takes a meltdown to cool down.

As women, we'd be exponentially lighter if we'd sort through some of our emotional clutter... We need to dispose of the crud that we no longer need. Excerpt from essay #3 "What's in my Purse?

It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone - maybe even more alone - than I was.

My family are very down-to-earth people. We are not showbizzy at all.

Everything we do is to be offered to the Lord; and if done so with a pure heart of love, it becomes holy.

All those who believe in psychokinesis - raise my hand.

Walk your dogs on the beach that's my luxury. The food's not so good in West Palm, but you can't have it all.

They may not love you at the time, but they will later.

Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.

To resolve conflicts, excessive ambitions and one's own fears and aspirationis must be sacrificed.