I've always been blessed with confidence. I am a glass-half-full person. My first movie, 'Private Benjamin,' got turned down by every studio until the very last one, but I just kept thinking, 'Why are you people not seeing that this is a hit movie? What is wrong with you?' -- Nancy Meyers

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

The two biggest sellers in bookstores are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

Life is whatever we conceive it to be.

Whatever one writes, comes to pass.

Read much, but not many books.

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog it's too dark to read.

When there is no hope in the future, the present appears atrociously bitter.

When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.

Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.

A doctor a day keeps the jim-jams away.