School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was a happy visitor to all the worlds that sprang full-blown from the printed page.

Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what's important and what's not.

God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.

If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two.

This means that I don't have to run faster than the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal, I just have to run faster than whoever is with me when the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal starts chasing us.

She will blind everyone with bright light to cover the truth ...

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

Let em' know that amidst all the confusion; some of us may do the winnin but.. We all do the losin, it's just who does the choosin

I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad.

Criticism challenges current findings. The effort to defend one's position can lead to deeper insights or consideration of options previously not considered.

I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.