Have you noticed, " she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.

Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.

Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.

Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken.

The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?

Why is it, " she asked, snuggling closer, "that I so often imagine myself running away and running free?

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.

A panic attack is pathological exaggeration of the body’s normal response to fear, stress or excitement.

I'm friends with everybody. I love everybody. I trust everybody because they don't give me a reason not to.

I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.

Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.

[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.

Failures teach you. Success makes you arrogant

If you are moving, even fire will not hurt you. If you are standing still near the fire, even though you are not in the fire, the heat will eventually get to you.

Screening out peer pressure and conventional wisdom. It is so powerful, that most of us aren't even aware of how much it is influencing our decisions.

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.