I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.

Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?

But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?

Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.

If every woman had a direwolf, men would be much sweeter.

Your father only has one foot on this earth. And really, really long legs . . .

It made me feel particularly sickened to know that this kind of callous attitude toward animals is repeated again and again in laboratories around this country.

Life is a battlefield. I don't have enough time on the planet to play games.

And on Thursday, President Obama seized the opportunity of the National Prayer Breakfast to forthrightly criticize the 'terrible deeds' . . . committed 'in the name of Christ.'.

I like to open new doors and blaze new trails through the jungle and all that whatnot. What keeps me goin all these years is changin it up.

I never thought I'd lead the NBA in rebounding, but I got a lot of help from my team-mates - they did a lot of missing.

It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.

How many Buddhists does it take to change a lightbulb? Many in body, one in mind.