Only in love is there trust - even the possibility of trust.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

I am a kind of joke, but the question is: which kind? My job is to keep everyone guessing.

Snooty knew measly talked muchly.

I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement - I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done.

I've never had a chance to go to the Finals, and I don't have a ring - and that would be the only thing that would get me to think about it.

You don’t pick your family, you take what you’re given and you make the best of it.

We believe in enjoying the constitutional privilege and right of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own consciences.

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.

Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.