If only someone had told me about the confidence-boosting nature of guns, I’d have been shooting them all my life.

If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.

It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.

If you could relive one year in your life, which one would it be? [...] The upcoming one.

For better or worse, there are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.

Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.

Really. Is there anything nice to be said about other people's vacations?

That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.

I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss.

That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.

Be careful when choosing what you're proud of--because the world has every intention of using it against you

To enhance and expand your vision, get an education.

You have to passionately want it to possess it.

The thing that grieves the heart of the Lord is when truth is ridiculed. When God doesn’t see men who stand in defense of the truth.

Good Morning! Wake up and smile like the morning sun.

If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.

The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence

In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena.

I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.

We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.

We cannot enslave others without enslaving a part of ourselves.