Hope for forces which you do not yet have.

What am I doing? Nothing. I am letting life rain upon me.

a mother is God's deputy on earth.

Every thought of God is prayer.

Hope for forces which you do not yet have. That is what is most impossible, and nevertheless possible.

You are never really with a person unless you are alone with him.

In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.

What's a rainy daywithout some deliciouscoffee-flavoured loneliness?

I waited for her to nod before pacing while I bit my lip. That hurt, so I switched to biting my finger nail.

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.

We don't quit. I don't quit. Let's seize this moment.

[Donna] Brazile had sent an email to a top [Hillary] Clinton aide the day before the town hall warning of just that question with almost the identical wording.

When you go to Hawaii, it's all about "Aloha." It means hello, goodbye and I love you.

Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over, collected hundreds and hundreds of rejection slips.

Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying.

I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable.