audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.

As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, "O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!"

Borrowed illusions are better than none.

It is only in the heart that anything really happens.

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.