Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.

But we always avoided talking about these things—difficult things—and I wondered if that meant we'd be a little uncomfortable with or disappointed by each other for the rest of our lives.

Be careful with your faith !It could make you see the good side of hell on earth.

The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.

The mere knowledge of secrets will not help the amateur conjurer very far on the road to success.

TPP is dead anyway, and similar deals in the eurozone are going nowhere.

The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity.

Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance.

Success is mine when I work my hardest to become my best, and I alone determine whether I do so.

the one for whom the sun shines.. -Ramses II