People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

A finished person is a boring person.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

Girls are pearls, ladies are rubies, mothers are moulders, and women are wonderful.

Love is always about losing something

Our worst can become our best if mistakes are gathered like twigs of a bird's nest, giving one true foundation, a spiritual home to build their life upon.

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.

From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.

I am the object of criticism around the world. But I think that since I am being discussed, then I am on the right track.

Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.

Only the believers pick up the prizes in life.

For he who has died has been freed from sin...14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.