At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

When we relate with people, we indirectly relate with God

The more difficult is your journey the sweater the destination

The open road still softly calls.

I used to own some hobby aircraft, but I got rid of them. I didn't have the time.

If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.

Used to be marketing was viewed as the people with crayons and scissors who did creative work. Now it's seen as central to driving growth.

Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished.

That penny farthing hell you call your mind

Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.