You are never too old to set a new goal or dream a new dream.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

If you appear in the 'atlantic' or 'harper's' or the 'new yorker,' by god, you must be a writer, because everybody says so.

what I really want to say: that what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, negroes, jews, arabs. We are all brothers.

When you think that you lost everything you find out you can always lose a little more.

It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love

Authors and actors and artists and such - never know nothing, and never know much.

There are a thousand ways to wealth, but only one way to heaven

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

No one ever told me i was pretty when i was a little girl. all little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.