the trouble with success is - it takes all your time. And you can't do the things you really want to do!

He said I was the most sensitive person he had ever seen- that I belonged to the hyper-hyper type and we rarely survive!

Try to look at everything through the eyes of a child.

Courage, enthusiasm, awareness -- if only one can keep these to the end.

Life is too wonderful, too full, too short and strength too limited to contain its wonder.

all my wealth is in my memories.

... as long as we go on loving and working life is worth while.

... accepting and feeling sympathy and love is not so healing as giving it.

A curious mind is never bored.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.

How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.

Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.

Cooking is really calming. Sharing food with friends, cooking.

Inherited wealth may be something easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to lose.

For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.

I have remained resentful to this day When any but myself presumed to say That there was anything I couldn't be.

In this country that grows more food than any other nation on this earth, it is unthinkable that any child should go hungry.