Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me.

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

I love seeing teachers outside of school. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs.

The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.

Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.

...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

It puts things into perspective when we realize that people can live without the luxuries we grow accustomed to having.

Age whitens hairs, but not sin.

I could not make a move without making love.

Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value of each other's person.

I usually don't like to talk about money, but I talk about the movie, and the other aspects of directing, etc.