In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

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

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

Nothing is black or white.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Dare to risk public criticism.

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