Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!

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.

All men have a soul.

This could be our greatest nightmare. But maybe, intead this would be our only hope of salvation.

Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.

It's been a long time since I asked anything of heaven, and my arms still haven't come down.

Because time moves more slowly in Kid World ... it goes on for decades ... It is adult life that is over in a twinkling.

The only thing of real importance that leader do is to create and manage culture

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

A man that is afraid is never a man.

The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.

Tom had traveled around the sun eleven times when the delivery truck brought his mother's newest fridge, but a number doesn't really describe his age.