"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

"Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion."

"When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure."

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself."

"I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone."

"I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing."