My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

Ali ipak uz mene se može, mada je neobično, Sa mnom je opasno hteti, ja nikad ne odustajem.

Do not postpone your happiness to "achievement" of goals. It is not worth postponing your happiness, even for a moment...Learn to "be happy" first, and then go about achieving your goals...

Soon never comes soon enough to a young child.

Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.

The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.

I am here to give voice to the invisible.

I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That's a young age. As it turned out, things were fine, then not so fine, and then it was a blunder. That happens all the time.

Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.

I'm an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work.

The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.