But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval.

With every single fiber of her soul, she wanted to be With every single fiber of her soul, she wanted to be

Meaningful eye contact has the power to transcend time and space to connect us with others and can be one of the most gracious and important ways to demonstrate attention and respect.

Wanting and wishing are very different

It doesn't have to glitter to be gold.

The restful alertness response reverses the aging process.

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

There's a religious basis to their [Bush and Chaney] kind of conservatism. It's rooted in a kind of fundamentalism. I'm afraid of that. I don't like that idea. I think all extremism is suspect.

Hard times may test me, they cannot destroy me.