Nora Ephron

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

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

If a girl have beef with me, she gon’ have beef with me forever.

If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

To be a leader, you must stand for something, or you will fall for anything.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

I am not young enough to know everything.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.