I want my handbags and my shoes to be stylish but I want to make sure that they're versatile. I travel and I have to make sure the pieces I put into my bag can go with a dress or with shorts or jeans.

We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.

Joycelyn Elders

Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

James G. Huneker

In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York is in heavy boots.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Natural ability is important, but you can go far without it if you have the focus, drive, desire and positive attitude.

Kirsten Sweetland

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

Dan O'Brien

I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.

Truman Capote

I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.

Faith Hill

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Evelyn Waugh

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

Desiderius Erasmus

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

James Barrie

Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

Blaise Pascal

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

Horace Walpole