You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is wrong with these people who are writing these books? Do they not have necks?

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

Don’t give Satan a foothold, but discipline yourself to stay close to God. He alone is your security.

Not every person that speaks less than you do is more ignorant than you are.

Can you think of a better way than slavishly copying and removing attribution to disrespect an author

When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.

I'm afraid of a couple things. I'm afraid of getting caught up in other people's expectations, because I feel like that's an ongoing battle.

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.

They who seek religion for culture's sake are aesthetic, not religious, and will never gain that grace which religion adds to culture, because they never can have the religion.

I believe all that God ever revealed, and I never hear of a man being damned for believing too much; but they are damned for unbelief.

I know that the hard work got me here. And the day I stop working hard, this can all go away.

Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.