I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.

Determine to live life with flair and laughter.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

I know why the caged bird sings.