No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.

when you’re the first in your family to go to college, you never truly feel like they’ve let you go.

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

No one really knows what words mean these days.

No one consciously chooses addiction to a substance or behavior over his partner. There are always reasons – powerful ones – why a person retreats into addiction.

And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.

The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy is certainly one of the most valuable of the modern improvements in the practice of government.

Cancer is a word, not a sentence.

You’re not the only one who can get possessive. I’m very proprietary about what’s mine.

I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?

Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard.