My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

Libraries are the pride of the city.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.

To be filled with fear is to open to the wrong way

We are all too fixed on wrecking ourselves rather than bettering ourselves.

Let the war turn off the families. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

Without a theory the facts are silent.

Donald Trump didn't just throw out the playbook, he set fire to it. And America loved it.

When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys.

They signed the unwind order just to spite each other,but laugh,laugh,laugh,Hayden, because if you ever stop laughing,it might just tear you apart worse than a Chop Shop.

Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.

No Child Left Behind ... is a giraffe with an elephant's body. ... You can't take the vision of Ted Kennedy and merge it to the public policy of George Bush and come out with anything that works.