In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.

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.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.

Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past.

To do something very common, in my own way.

I know I'm good when I'm hitting the ball the other way - that's Albert Pujols.

...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.

I get weary of the European habit of taking our money, resenting any slight hint as to what they should do, and then assuming, in addition, full right to criticize us as bitterly as they may desire.

After I chased the werewolf and the vampire out of my office, I changed my clothes.

Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal.

I train for around 3-4 hours everyday. It can go up to 6-7 hours when a competition is approaching.