He was withdrawing. I think it was getting harder for him to accept his fate. Like a bird in a cage, he grew silent.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

The dark, cold grasp you took on me, has tangled me completely

What man seeks, to the point of anguish, in his gods, in his art, in his science, is meaning. He cannot bear the void. He pours meaning on events like salt on his food.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

I don't follow trends. I make each cake for a particular wedding, or event.

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.

The transaction will enable us to become a single source of integrated products and services that building owners want in order to optimize comfort and energy efficiency

If you're 50, you're never going to be 50 ever again, so enjoy being 50. If you sit through the year wishing you were younger, before you know it, it's going to be over, and you're going to be 51.

Seven out of 10 Americans don't like the direction the country's going.