Goodness knows she is too fierce for you Goodness knows she has eyes for a lord Goodness knows she yet will prove untrue Her cheek's blush is as false as her word

No more crying. It's all wetness and no comfort at all.

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?

All I've ever wanted was to be near you.

Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts.

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did.

I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.

You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

I do like the world quite a lot.

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

Well then. Will the naysayers please leave the universe?

Stolen sweets are best.

Some come to a teacher for power. They still have all the desires, angers and jealousies of an unevolved person. Consequently, they become destructive both to themselves and to others.

No matter what situation we find ourselves in, we can always set our compass to our highest intentions in the present moment

when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered.

Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.

The Hubble Law is one of the great discoveries in science; it is one of the main supports of the scientific story of Genesis.

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.