Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer recognize and protect and comfort each other.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

There is nothing in the world stronger than gentleness.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.

People never think about words, they only feel them.

Sadness is so ungrateful.

People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.

Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason.

The purpose of suffering is to contain the light of your desire until you see yourself in everything.

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write.

A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.

A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.

I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.

I'm a competitor. No matter what I'm doing, whether I'm golfing, whether I'm playing indoor soccer with my fiancé - he's not going to get by me. I'm going to try to do whatever I can to win.

I just try to get people to laugh - I'm not trying to change the world or anything.

Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But thats where an interesting conversation begins.

You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.

I love the show tunes; I love all of them.