Because letting someone in close meant they could hurt you. I knew all about that kind of fear. I lived with it.

Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds.

... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.

I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.

A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.

I want to fill every part of you, breathe the air from your lungs and leave my handprints on your soul. I want to give you more pleasure than you can bear.

You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

He was my confidant, the person who was always on my side even when he wasn't taking my side.

Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~ Liberty Jones

A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about him.

I've always thought it was about finding the right person. But it's about choosing the right person, isn't it?

I'm interested in technology for the masses. Good tech design should not just be for enthusiasts but for the general public. It should be something that touches everyone.

If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

All of our issues come from us not being aware enough or not seeing through our problems to the depths of the issues.

By boldness great fears are cancealed.

This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

I wasn't there [in U.S] when the city was bombed but it seems to have changed my friends.

Rwanda has its own problems and never sought to blame others or cause others trouble. I advise Burundi to do the same.

Parents are much more likely to be attuned to what they don't like than they are to the expectations that the kid is having difficulty meeting.

There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.