I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

The mind I love must have wild places.

For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.

I'm single, and I hate dating.

Some aim to be deft, others to be laboriously careful. Neither dexterity nor conscientiousness is enough.

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.

America has been conditioned to think of pasta as the never-ending pasta bowl and Olive Garden.

Our nation needs to stop doing for people what they can and should do for themselves. Self reliance means, if anyone will not work, neither should he eat.

My goal has always been to be a principal dancer with ABT.

It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

Sorry-in-the-Vale, Sorriest River, Crying Pools," said Jared. "Is the quarry called Really Depressed Quarry?