I love these pet names," she said, gazing soulfully up into his eyes, "Nitwit. Sap skull. Termagant. How they make my heart flutter!

I deserve passion," she said. "I deserve to be loved- in every way. I deserve a man who'll give his whole heart, not the part he isn't using at the moment.

Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the better the world liked seeing them fall.

Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can't we be other planets? Why must we be moons?

We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.

They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.

He was a man. Men always had lewd thoughts. It was perfectly natural and normal

I should like to see you try.

I'm no good at being good.

Let me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost isn't the way to do it.

I prayed for someone to love me as much as I love you. Eventually I came to see that that "someone" was me.

He is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea in the conquest of the goal pursued.

I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.

Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.

Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.

What example do you have of anything like the Pyramids outside of Africa? You have them in Mexico, but that can be traced to early African migration. So the African created mound culture.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.