It doesn't matter where I am; I'm yours.

Love without friendship is like a kite, aloft only when the winds are favorable. Friendship is what gives love its wings.

I beg you to exercise wisdom and restraint and remember that not all opportunities are created equal. Some are nothing but steps leading down toward catastrophe.

And the brave make their own fortune!

Better be unromantic than thoroughly used and still poor.

Life had its way of beating humbleness into a man.

Why allow all the old memories to have supremacy? Make new ones, memories of such luster and beauty that, should the old ones come back, they would be pallid and impotent in comparison.

Dreams are not real; but when you are inside a dream, it is real to you.

He smiled at her. And it hit her like a mallet to the temple, the realization that she was in love with him. Stupidly, dreadfully in love with him.Overnight, she'd become a fool.

Never mind what a man says; watch what he does.

Sometimes limbs must be re-broken to set properly, her heart too needed to shatter anew before it could truly heal.

Love sets the foundation for all human values.

I have falling in love with reading.

When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.

I would say to those who don't like the metaphor This is reality.

We're just as screwed up as you.

Making love to your wife is like shooting at sitting ducks.

Stability is not immobility.

Watching fish, like listening to music, can distract you in a good way.

I'm one of those people that will say, 'My cancer was a gift.'

For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written.