Do not forget about the thorns on the roseswhen you say that love is like a red red rose.

Living a lie is painful, and doesn’t do anyone any good. I had to be true to myself, because, either way, God would know if I was lying.

I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city streets in the early morning.

It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or ornate, and what was inside them might as well have been dust.

It's pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.

Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.

Lies are ants, the truth is the sun, and questions are a magnifying glass waiting to be picked up by the curious.

Don't leave my ocean for shallow waters then ask me about the moon.

The world's theology is easy to define. It is the view that human beings are basically good, that no one is really lost, that belief in Jesus Christ is not necessary for salvation.

My mama told me when I was young we're all born SUPERSTARS!

The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.

People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.