Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

It takes you to bring the hidden wonders into light. Decide to make it happen.

Philip says to fear me. Do you have any idea how afraid I am of him?

I personally like being unique. I like being my own person with my own style and my own opinions and my own toothbrush.

I hope that I serve by being a teacher.

All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.

We shouldn't deny the pain of what happens in our lives. We should just refuse to focus only on the valleys.

There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood.

Too darned good a machine can be a menace, not a help.

I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.

But surprises were nothing new to her. Like opening a can of mushroom soup and finding tomato instead; be grateful and eat it anyway.