I assure you; while I look like a ghost, I'm no spirit or demon. I'm nothing but a girl struggling to make her way in an intolerant world. I bleed, I love, and someday, I'll die.

Coffee first. Schemes later.

As the Promethean fire which banished Darkness, so Knowledge bears the Power and the Light.

A girl's body was a prize. It had to be more than asked for. It had to be earned, worshipped, and avowed.

What good was speaking when I'd determined none of the world listened to one another, especially not when a woman was speaking.

Lives should never be down to mere words, but I suppose they always are. Whether declarations of war, law, or treaty... words ever determine lives.

I was in love. With a two-dimensional object. A mute in love with a painting. Lovely. Just lovely.

Sometimes a picture of a moment captures more than the moment itself.

God brings people into our lives precisely when we need them.

Don't put stock in past lives. It's this life that makes the difference. And in this life, there may be certain destinies, people you're meant to meet.

They tell us, love, that eternity awaits.

Justice has a right to protest against injustice.

I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.

Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.

I still had a normal childhood with my friends from school.

Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.

Life is often like that, the best balancing on a knife edge with the worst.

In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort.

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.

You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.