A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free.

If each of us could help one orphan to build his/her capacity, and academic background rather than giving them money or food, then no family will sufferer without guardian.

Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.

A dove will never be found in a burning tree and love will never be found in a heart that won't forgive.

Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.

Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic?

Americans appreciate the way our friends around the world are sticking by us, and we all hope for their continued support in what's going to be some very trying times.

I think some musicians can almost forget that the stage is something to do something on, even if that thing is standing still.

Hillary Clinton should be applauded for her willingness to serve publicly.

I'm always moving forward and trying new things.

the chicken's still dancing the chicken won't stop