“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”

“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”

“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”

“Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist.”

“I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.”

“Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means which have been helpful to others. Perhaps they will serve as suggestions to stimulate your own thinking until you know what it is that will fulfill you, will help you to find out what you want to do with your life.”

“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”