The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

Art is long, life is short. Unless your funding is f%$ked, in which case all our days are numbered.

Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.

All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure is Christ.

I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel.

If you're lost, you might need to swim against the tide.

I have no weapon but nonviolence.

Don't get too excited when I am winning, and don't get too depressed when I am losing. Just keep it cool.

He who seeks eternity should look at the sky, he who seeks the moment, should look at the cloud.

The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression.