Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.

we are all given the ingredients of happiness, but the mixing is left to ourselves.

What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new.

Promises were made for people who do not trust each other.

There is no such thing as time for those who are happy. For the others - there is nothing else.

Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.

People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store.

I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct.

If you didn't sit with your head in the clouds so perpetually you wouldn't get so many shocks.

I haven't hurt you ... if I have, it's the faithful wound of a friend.

What we once fling away never comes again to us.

I am in the world to change the world

Wisdom comes in the silence of one's chaos

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

When you love something, whether it's jam and cheese sandwiches or wearing your pyjamas as pants, you forget that it was ever anything other than commonplace.

It's painful to consider anything but writing.

You don't ever want to appear like you're wearing too much makeup. If you have a heavy eye and a heavy lip, people are like, 'Wow, what are you trying to cover up?'

as long as there is a lottery, we the people of the United States must believe in getting something for nothing.

You don't need to take a persons advice to make him feel good, just ask him for it.

I'm a child of God. God is my mommy, my daddy. That's the only thing that'll keep my head up. If I don't remember who I am in him, I'm done.

Im a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.