“I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.”

Everything happens for a reason.

Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.

I’m pretty, but I’m not beautiful. I sin but I’m not the devil. I’m good, but I’m not an angel.

A smile is the best makeup a girl could wear.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

I live to suceed, not to please you or anyone else.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

There are always two sides to every story.

Open your eyes and look within. Are you satisfied with the life you are living?

I don’t mind living in a man’s world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven’t had a lesson since.

Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them, not by how happy you can make them.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, it’s society who’s ugly.

[On a dull party:] It was a fête worse than death.

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.

Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.

We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.

The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.

If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.

The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes.

Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.