My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.

Don't think or judge, just listen.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems like nothing at all.

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.

Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

... what you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.

Not thou, White rose, but thy Ensanguined sister is The dear companion of my heart's Shed blood.

I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

I learned American Sign Language in college and seemed to pick it up rather quickly. I really love to sign and wish that I had more friends to sign with.

Now we say there's, well, another place in the world-there's India. Wonderful place - except for its people.

Only a single line is needed to discover who is doing what.

I have been dubbed 'the girl who puts the glamour into hammer'

All of us have not been to a natural prison, but everybody in here has had a spiritual prison.

Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?