I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write, and there are very few of them.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

A finished person is a boring person.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

Porque a volar no se aprende solo, pero a caer no se aprende nunca.

That was the hottest haircut ever.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man.

The people know what the land knows.

A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

When I'm walking along in the street, I always feel that around the corner,there is something wonderful waiting for me. That's my attitude.

You don't need a reason to help people.

We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don't mean.