Do the new, be the change.

I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with you in your mind's eye?

Those for whom things came easily usually made less of an effort, not more.

She forgot: it was as simple as that. She just loved being with the guy. Possibly enough that not even their own wedding could screw it up.

Life is not so simple as you think without taking those risks, trying everything to make ends meet.

Friends don't get jealous of each other or begrudge the other for finding success. They celebrate every victory together.

I remember the fire, it burns bright, always around me. I close my eyes, and tears stream out. The tides of the past seize me, bear me out to sea.

Extravagant sartorial display had a purpose. It created the impression of wealth and power on the opponent and pride in the wearer which has been lost sight of in our nervously egalitarian times.

Without your right to have money that holds it's value, all else just fails because you don't have any real money.

I have never put a gun to anyone's head to obligate him to marry me.

I don't see life divided into public and private, secular and sacred. It's all an open place of service before our God.