"Early on, people invested in me because of my letters and then, somehow, after they invested, they stopped reading them."

“The Bahá´í Faith is consolation for humanity.”

“Whatever happens, I shall never be alone, I shall always have a fare, an affair, or a revolution.”

Source : "The Still Centre (The Uncreating Chaos)". Book by Stephen Spender, 1939.

“What if your advisor talks only about returns, not risk? ... It's his job to take risk into account by telling you the range of possible outcomes you face. If he won't, go to a new planner, someone who will get real.”

“They must go for it now as they have nothing to lose but the match.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The hardest period in life is one’s twenties. It’s a shame because you’re your most gorgeous, and you’re physically in peak condition. But it’s actually when you’re most insecure and full of self-doubt. When you don’t know what’s going to happen, it’s frightening.”

Source : "Helen Mirren: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. July 07, 2011.

“Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.”

“She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of lightning to start the kindling going under her medicine pot. She turned the moon into salve, the stars into swaddling cloth, and healed the wounds of every creature walking up on two or down on four.”

Source : Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.6, Open Road Media

“Don't talk. Kill it." That might be the sweetest thing a woman's ever said to me on a first date.”