Having her favorite breakfast always made her feel cozy, like a warm blanket was being wrapped around her.

Bullies were only triumphant when they made other people feel smaller than they themselves felt.

It will take some time to adjust, but I promise you, this will be a real adventure for all of us.

But men are funny about their wars, they act as if they own them, and perhaps they do, for I don't think women ever start them.

If I could just capture each memory in a bottle the maybe you people would understand how much I've suffered, how much I've been through, but most importantly how far I have come.

My thoughts are like butterflies. They are beautiful, but they fly away.

When he comes for her, it’s only in her dreams where she has no control, no way to shut the door, and nowhere to run. That’s when she listens.

It is inconceivable that people are motivated solely or even mainly by external incentives.

Comics don't like to see other comics do well.

The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.

In every person's life, around 27 to 29 years old, the stars and the planets align themselves to exactly the way they were when you were born. You're faced with yourself. There's no running away.

My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.

We would take the same position as the majority of the world about this, including this issue where Prime Minister [Ariel] Sharon made a commitment to pull Israeli troops out of Gaza.