One of my favorites is "Time and Again" by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and the 1950s. It's really a cult book.

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.

It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes to lay down his life that makes him romantic.

To be happy - that's all that matters.

Through meditation and gentle cooperation, the body will heal itself with little or no effort.

Being sincere, dedicated and honest is the key. People of integrity triumph in the end.

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.

I'm always changing and learning about acting, and about myself. I just hope to always keep doing that.

I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.

A real dictator usually isn't interested in money or women, just pure power.