I would love to have my own shoe line. That I would absolutely love.
Whether a pretty woman grants or withholds her favors, she always likes to be asked for them.
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body.
Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.
There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy
We have moments of such clarity, of such appreciation of the incredible web of interconnected events that carry us from breath to breath, day to day, as long as we live-and the next moment we fret about how much we weigh. Or who we didn't send a Valentine. Or who forgot to compliment the dinner. Or whatever.
Maybe people become bitter when they don't know what they are fighting for. But I keep my eyes open.
Following a meeting with Hitler, Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, a man who had 'courageously criticized the Nazi attacks on the Catholic Church' - went away convinced that Hitler was deeply religious.
Forgiving is not forgetting. It is remembering and letting go.