Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.

Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.

Her shut-eyed smile transformed itself into something else: the smile of someone brave and knowing, someone whose pain had made her wise.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself.

You know what 'Dolores' means? It's Latin, means sadness. Our Lady of Sorrow. Why are you so sad?

What if I don’t like adventure?Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.

You can be two things if you're a woman, Dolores. Betty Crocker or a floozy. Just remember your place - even if it kills you.

Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That’s what life’s all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry

She let out a strangled laugh. “Yeah, that’s how it works. I just woke up one morning and was like, ‘gee, I want to screw Kyler.’ Seriously, you have no clue.

Do not quit, endure and find strength.

Any thing is interesting if you can communicate it. There are no unimportant subjects for the enlivened mind.

It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written

Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.

If you cultivate your body, your mind, your emotions, and your energies to a certain level of maturity, meditation will blossom.

For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.

The purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire.