Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.

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.

For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.

Do you really understand all this army stuff?It helps not to be too bright, sir.

No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.

Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.

The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop a character over a period of time.

We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America.

Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote.

The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.

There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam.

Listen, I didn't know how to make coffee when I came to the United States. Because in Colombia the maids do it.