It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

It is the doom of the Christian church to be always distracted with controversy. John Quincy Adams

In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it!

It's quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.

When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.

Anything that we're connecting with that's happening right now, there's an obvious vulnerability - because we're just fragile human beings in the middle of a just-now expression.

I bet you like sitting at red lights.

The Natural Step is a clear voice in the commotion.

Giving and receiving pleasure is the nature of the cosmos, the inner nature of reality.

I make 98% of my collection in New York City and am generating jobs, so fashion isn't just frivolous for me. I understand levity about it. I also understand the depth of it.

I think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity.