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

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.

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.

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

Everyone’s unfolding karma will change. To maintain equanimity during the unfolding of karmic effect is the Gnanis’ (Self-realized person’s) duty.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.

We must put aside all judgment of our own, and keep the mind ever ready and prompt to obey in all things the true Spouse of Christ our Lord, our holy Mother, the hierarchical Church.

If you are going to do something that you have to lie about, don't do it, it's very simple.

You know when I was younger I used to look at Downbeat Magazine and I figured anybody in Downbeat must be making a living.

If i can't have what i want . . . then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied that at least there is something more to want

It's time to cut off visas for foreign baseball players and return our national pastime to Americans.

The most erotic zone is the imagination.

The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me.