“Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious. ” 

“A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.”

“Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.” 

“Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.” 

“Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.” 

“We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach. ” 

“Also, one of the simplest paths to deep change is for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak.” 

“Decisions are best made by the people affected by them.” 

“I do not like to write - I like to have written.” 

“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.” 

“You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding new ways to express it.” 

“Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.” 

“Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.” 

Great loves too must be endured. 

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them

You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”

“The best things in life are free. The second-best are very expensive.”

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.