If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

Wearing fake happiness is as good as smearing foundation. A bit of moisture drains it all.

And he didn't get tired or sleepy, for the beauty burned in him like fire.

Sometimes, it becomes necessary for you to hit the bottom, and hit really hard that it awakens you.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.

We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes.

People who consider themselves political, who follow political developments most rigorously, are often those who view the political process with the greatest lack of perspective.

Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.

I am a complete mother's boy. I try to do everything with honour, respect and grace because the last thing I would want to do is hurt her.

The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.