A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

Nyree taught me not to trust anyone but Steve quickly corrected that lesson and taught me not to trust everyone.

A country without vision runs to every direction.

It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

when the day comes that I kneel by your bedside and see your eyes close, or you kneel by mine, it must be that the one who waits behind shall know the parting is not all.

When I hear Donald Trump say, "Make America great again", I wonder when he thought America ever was great." He has been criticizing our country for decades. He even criticized Ronald Reagan.

Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war.

That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'

Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare

I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.