... Angus had a "pretty normal childhood." Bertie had immediately mistrusted him. Nobody had a normal childhood.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

The past is what you take with you.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

Kindness is a calling. Caring about people is powerful. Love changes lives.

People worried about our passing over into some robotic state, but we were so much like robots already, programmed and easy to manipulate.

In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's assistant for a couple of summers.

I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.

Life is a series of moments. The quality of attention and action that we bring to each moment determines the quality of our lives.

Growth in grace is one way to be happy in our religion. God has wisely linked together our comfort and our increase in holiness.

El pan comido y la compan? |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.

Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed.

I will be able to forecast which side will be victorious and which defeated.

Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality.