People don't know how chickens can turn on you, but they can -- just like mad dogs.

Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.

The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways.

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I've always despised that type, but I see how it happens now

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

The church has to show the way of freedom to the nation

It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everybody would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.

No one book of scripture can be understood by itself, any more than any one part of a tree or member of the body can be understood without reference to the whole of which it is a part.

..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.

Those that fight don't listen, those that listen don't fight.

I don't think we need to have an either/or debate about the use of military force - I think you can be both tough and smart.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

I try to consider people's perspectives and not just my own.

Introverts living under the Extroversion Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are.

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.