"One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise."

"Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers."

"Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outwards, one small step at a time."

"How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!"

"For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime."

"When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time".You have more potential than you believe you do."