Nora Ephron

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.

No one can be helped unless he can be put in the way of helping himself.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

There are certain things we come into this world having to defeat.

Whenever you think it’s the end, it’s probably just the start of something else.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

The love we were promised in fairy tales was never something for us to find. It has always been something for us to create.

Some days, your perfume falls from your skin and settles in the staircase. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stopped on the fourth step and felt all the ways I’ve fallen in love with you.

You be the clouds above, I’ll be the grass below, and everything in between will be where our love will grow.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.