I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me.

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

I love seeing teachers outside of school. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs.

The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.

Never stop seeking, even when it seems there is no hope

Actions are stairs and reactions are slides

When you are innocently covered by sorrow, It shall be turned into joy.

There's only one thing you can do: Toss your pebble in the river, watch it ripple, and know you have moved the ocean.

The suprematist must have a superior knowledge of understanding. With out that, their art is powerless

I'm honor-bound not to struggle with this since you just retrieved it all by yourself. Please do me the courtesy of pretending this is hard for you as well.

We do not benefit from a relationship with China or any other country in which we put our values and our ideals aside.

I think Hammer's very cool: he has a great voice and great presence.

To be happy is not the purpose of our being, but to deserve happiness.

in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen