I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

I believe the meaning of life is the relationships we have with each other." 

The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.

No matter what else comes, your courage will be your companion for life.

The fragrance of sandalwood and rosebay does not travel far. But the fragrance of virtue rises to the heavens.

There were seventy-five people in the lobby and only a seven-year-old girl was finding out what it felt like to sit on the Marble Floor

To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.

Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen To come forth, like the springtime, fresh and green

That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality.

The only ground of God's love is his love.