When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.

Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind.

We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.

Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence.

A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.

Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases

The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.

Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.

I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

Never let stress shape your strategy. Most women think better after a brisk walk, a light meal, a massage and a nap.

Death changes nothing but the masks that cover our faces.

There's no greater joy in life than enjoying power without responsibility. - Mukta Prajapati

The two of us warmed by a bold beam of light that wicks the moisture from my dress, my hair, and my skin—returning it to the sky where it promises to find me again in the form of dew, snow, or rain.

The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place.

It is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it -- all the associations which a different word has.

Science and art are the handmaids of religion.

The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.

I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious.

Our task in life is to find our deep soul work and throw ourselves headlong into it.

A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.