In the ladies' room, Alice studied her image in the mirror. The reflected older woman's face didn't quite match the picture that she had of herself in her mind's eye." p 35

Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big

Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion.

Everything she did and love, everything she was, required language.

Take what you've learned and love someone again. Find someone to love and love without condition. This is why we're all here.

... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life.

I smile, loving him for changing with me, for going where my Neglect has taken us, for getting the new me.

At some point, there would simply be no point.

Alice: I miss myself. John: I miss you too, Ali, so much.

But I am not what I say or what I do or what I remember. I am fundamentally more than that.

Time's a funny thing, bending, warping, stretching, and compressing, all depending on perspective.

Faithfulness is a fortress.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

Your clothes should always make a statement.

Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.

Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.

Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write. But at times I have told myself that I don't necessarily have to publish anything else.

He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness.

Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour are hard to resist.

This generation, our generation of people who benefited, must always be the pioneers who look to younger people and say mediocrity is not accommodated in what we do.