I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

The divinity of thy soul is spark of divine-self.

It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.

The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

Joy is more infectious than leprosy.

The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.

I'm in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood.

My principal battle with the North Vietnamese was a moral one, and prayer was my prime source of strength.

One can neither agree nor disagree with a terminological proposal, as long as it is clear that it is just that: terminological.

After all those years of doing a live, hour-and-a-half show every week, I've got nothing more I need to prove.

You don't know where a sport can take you, so I want to make sure that I have an education behind me in case things don't work out.