There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

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.

When you leave, weary of me, without a word I shall gently let you go.

We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre.

Now that she had run away and seen a bit of the country, Cora wasn't sure the document described anything real at all. America was a ghost in the darkness, like her.

Love is a risk. It always is. None of us is guaranteed a long life. But love takes courage.

Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

Don’t go looking for trouble; it’s already looking for you.

I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.

I like high impact movies.

I could have anything I wanted and if I didn't have it, it was because I didn't want it.

Some of the best ideas come sort of out of nowhere and when you're not expecting it.