Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

The mind I love must have wild places.

There's nothing quite like turning the page.

I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.

I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life.

Do you love me for me?... I don't even love me for me.

Remember, if you don't have a goal you're not playing football, you're just kicking a ball around the park.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

Failure to do the good that is within your power is hard to forgive. But mercy and prayer reclaim the negligent.

We'll know for the first time If we're evil or divine We're the last in line.

I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'

The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.