Fool! Never wait on a man! Let him wait on himself!

Love doesn't always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will.

People make the rules of society, not God.

I don't think she's ever coming back.

I wish the night would end, I wish the day'd begin, I wish it would rain or snow, or the wind would blow, or the grass would grow, I wish I had yesterday, I wish there were games to play...

Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.

Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk tome about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead!

We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.

Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling piousand self- righteous while you starve small children!

Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects.

And why is it all men thinkeverything a woman writes is trivial or trashy-or just plain sillydrivel? Don't men have romantic notions? Don't men dream of findingthe perfect love?

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.

If "Manners maketh man, " as someone saidThen he's the hero of the dayIt takes a man to suffer ignorance and smileBe yourself, no matter what they

The rich know not who is his friend.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.

The next thing you think, the next action you take, will either create a new possibility for you, or it will repeat the past.

Timing is everything. That's a cliche. Now. If I'd said that a long time ago, I'd have been original.

For me, [John Wheeler] was the last Titan, the only physics superhero still standing.