Power bases are very dangerous because they attract people who are truly insane, people who seek power only for the sake of power.
A confident woman wears a smile and has this air of comfortability and pleasantness about her.
I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
Today I am even richer.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...
You haunt my days and dreams.
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap...