But when I think of us, in the quiet when I'm on my own, I think of Beauty and the Beast.I, being the beast, and you being the last beautiful thing in this city.

And perhaps, I'm a Tuesday night and you're a Wednesday morning the way we'll never even notice how we blend into each other.

He loved me like thick molasses on a summer's day. Pure, sweet, sticky, warm, dark.

Decades from now, my grandchild is going to be a poet... And she's going to write about how she's a living testament to how her grandmother made love to hurricane and calmed the storm.

Don't live off your past successes or failures, live for the next big pursuit.

Realize that if a door closed, it’s because what was behind it wasn’t meant for you.

The most powerful force that can transform an enemy into a friend is simple kindness.

Practice is the process of moving conscious action into subconscious and unconscious action.

Unless the Bible is first taught to our own hearts, then we have no basis from which to teach it to others at all.

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

What signifies sadness, sir; a man grows lean on it.

As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes.

There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.

I'd love to be in a 1910s film - the era between the corsets and losing the corsets.