Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.

You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen

She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it.

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

I feel like I should love them right away. But how do you do that? You can't make yourself love someone, can you?

Her need was as big as the stars, and he was down there on the beach, so quiet she could hardly hear him.

I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.

Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women.

I am in an extended self-directed course of study. That is, I am in control of my own life.

...congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.

Let him who is worthy by reason of his clear eye and unjaded heart wander across these borders of beauty and mystery and be glad.

I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.

Patience is being at peace with the process of life

[S]ince there is no wrong or right, you just reap what you sow.

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?

A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.