It's the easiest thing in the world to get to California-you just aim yourself west and start walking.

I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we’re imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is.

From the mouths of the innocents flows truth.

The mind of God is a mystery and none can understand it.

Every place there's people, there's badness.

Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill.

Well, we'll have no more of such foolishness, " I say harshly, to cover the wavering in my voice. "We're getting married, and that's that.

I won't lie to you. There is always a cost. All I can gurantee is that it will be the right thing.""It's insane, " he says, but without vehemence."It's faith, " I say.

I loved and lost and survived.

Men. And their no-good, fool-headed proposals.

I want to feel the victory of being desired by someone I once found desirable.

you don't have to worry about burning bridges, if you're building your own

Politics organizes our lives. We can't disregard it. Politics has lot of muck, lot of dirt. But that doesn't mean you have to be away from it. It's ubiquitous.

My great grandmother threw herself in front of a bus. The police tried to say she was committed suicide but the family knew she was just trying to stop civil rights.

Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.

It seems nobody really talks about what we do with our emotional pain. Only the ascendant perhaps, who have learned how to fully meditate or do yoga or whatever through their emotional pain.

Saying "muff" to someone and trying to be romantic is incredibly difficult.

Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.

The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning color; yet even coloring will never be perfectly attained by servilely copying the model before you.

Let nobody bribe you away from being yourself.

Debt is not caused by spending, it is caused by buying things that you don't pay for. Or, it's caused by cutting revenues that you don't offset ... by cuts in spending.