Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

She was seriously in love, but she never made demands.

I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.

Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.

Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.

Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.

I live by grace, in the light of God.

Kindness is a girl's best friend.

Hospitals are better and more reliable than miracle crusades.

Duty eats free will for breakfast.

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own lives.

We can't hear the balance yet because the soloist is still on the airplane.

There's much you can't change, but there's something important you can change: you.

Stop saying yes out of fear about what others will think about you and say NO out of love for yourself!