As if I were the funniest, weirdest girl in the world - that's how he used to look at me.

[W]hat should I have done? Gather dirt in my purse?

...I've been told that this building is here waiting for me. It's been my Buckingham Palace, my White House, my Taj Mahal, so coming here today as a real member is - well, it's a big deal.

...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity.

I've always liked Anna, but according to my mother, her family is complete New Money, and my grandmother has pointed out on several occasions that they're not even really Southern.

There is life and there is death, but on the border, where one shades into the other, there is the In Between. "...[M]ost people go through life without even knowing that it's there.

I'm named after my great grand-mother...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity.

You won't be able to find it out for yourself in any library or archive, either, because my grandmother has carefully and systematically destroyed every shred of evidence.

If not for her truly sparkling personality, she would have been doomed.

[W]hat my grandmother and my mother and I all know is that our beauty is no miracle. It is bought and paid for.

[M]y grandmother...had always complained that our house didn't have a profile that was "significant enough.

The whole purpose of education is to create a window of the mind through which you can see the world. Look through that window with your own profound love, joy, harmony, and gratitude.

We can still find joy in the midst of the storm.

A good teacher does not teach all that he knows. He teaches all that the learners need to know at the time, and all that the learners can accountably learn in the time given.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal

I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

Hope and fear are inseparable.

Speech isn't for agony.

I adore Smashbox lip stains. I carry a natural color for daytime and a berry shade for going out at night.

The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.