The truth about Chanel's bespoke femininity is that a woman can do or say whatever she wants as long as she's wearing pearls.

There are few things less stylish than a boring, self absorbed twit.

Expanding your notion of fun beyond a two-week vacation in Maui increases the chances you'll have more of it.

Overdressing is the first cousin of trying too hard.

Had she been a more instinctive, "natural" cook, she might have felt less compelled to parse each recipe, to tackle each one as though getting it right were a matter of life and death.

I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.

Seeing is not believing, it is only seeing, ”George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away

Words are mere bubbles of water but deeds are drops of gold.

Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.

Religion will never show the way.

Genuinely social people never ceased to amaze him. Their brains seemed to generate an inexhaustible fund of things to say, naturally, with no effort, out of nothing at all.

Sibling relationships are complicated. All family relationships are. Look at Hamlet.

Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.