Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Humility is attentive patience.

Boards don't hit back.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.