My mother always bought our birthday gifts.

Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.

I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them I will always love them.

All is changed, changed utterlyA terrible beauty is born

Sure.” Olivia smirked. “Good ol’ New York Public Library. I’m sure it’s up to date on the latest Demons that escape through well-guarded Demon Gates.

It is hard to look a hero when mounted on a pig.

And when reality goes, sanity has no reason.

The greater man the greater courtesy.

If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.

Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be most useful so.

A woman is free if she lives by her own standards and creates her own destiny, if she prizes her individuality and puts no boundaries on her hopes for tomorrow.

Being in Birmingham, I thought I was going to be a gangster or a bag-runner or a thief. I heard music and I was determined to get out of there.

The pen is mightier than the sword ... if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.