The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.