But they know. They all know. And what am I against so many…?

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

Why worry, if today be sweet'?

Zarah, you do know that we are supposed to be a graceful species, don't you?

The most powerful channel of communicationis still, "The Heart" !

Scars are not signs of weakness, they are signs of survival and endurance.

We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.

I can't believe it. I'm speechless. It is amazing to see where I've come from the last two years.

I'm not the kind of girl who breaks down in public.

Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose

To love is to be vulnerable.

When I was on that boat, I realized the only way I would feel creatively challenged was if I totally changed everything about my environment and put myself in a storm, in a sense.