“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything”

“Life is hard. After all, it kills you.”

“If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.”

“The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flowersuitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.”

“Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.”

“Now how can anybody look at that and not believe in God? I mean, how can anybody look at this and not believe there is some higher power, some divine force at work in the universe greater than Man,...”

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”

“When the people whom we love the most leave us, we start learning to live with the shadows they have left inside us.”

“The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low.”

“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”

“If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”

“sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”

“Something good happens to you, and you let off a different energy that attracts other good things.”

“People are always telling women to lose weight, and then when they do, other women attack them for it.”

“I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy.”