I think that's what you say when you can't have something you want, isn't it? You say you don't want it in the first place.

I think the rest of the world is not as cold and lonely a place as you think. At least I have to hope.

So many lights you’d think we were living in a constellation

Earth, " Alexa finally said. "It's not that great anyway." And they all smiled sadly. Because, of course, it was everything.

All the dreams I'd allowed myself to imagine were nothing but pages swept away by the wind.

Don't try to make something that someone has already did. Try to make something different.

I think God's really blessed me with patience. I'm good with a lot of things going on at once.

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.

The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.

One never really knew what went on inside the hearts of other people, even those hearts you thought you knew as well as your own.

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

I am an eternally curious person, but I wouldn't go to such lengths to know what it is like to be someone else.

Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us.