Man takes his law from the Earth

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded upon the manners of the nation

I try to not be too hard on myself regarding my diet. I've always been a workout-to-eat kind of a girl. I like to eat, to say the least.

Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star, ' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.

Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger.

[My father] could see as far as he could see and my mother wanted us to go to college so it was a very real part of my life.

We must empty purgatory with our prayers.

If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in? That village, that city, that life? We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say?

The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.