She brushed the tears from their faces and sang them a melancholy lullaby. Her obvious devotion to her daughters pulled at my heart strings, making my chest ache with longing for my own mother.

I no longer knew what was real and what wasn’t. The lines between reality and delusion had become so blurred.

Things are not as they seem. You do not understand. There is no escape. This is all there is.” I had never seen eyes filled with so much sadness.

I felt like I was living two lives. One in the present and one in the past.

Hesitating, I stood in the doorway to the room holding the proof of my sin.

Nausea and panic rose in my throat. I had killed a man.

The poker fell from my trembling hands as my entire body shook with reaction. I fell to my knees, pressed my hands to my face and began to sob. What had I done?

I wanted to soothe and comfort her, the way she had comforted her daughters.

Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.

When leaders put control into the hands of their people, at all levels, they unlock incalculable potential.

Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

I am ultimately comfortable with what I'm sampling.

Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.

I'm just more into playing golf. It's a great thing.

Three-dimensional, complex women get an audience engaged as much as the men. I’m a feminist in the true sense of the word. It’s about equality.

I think that once an artist has proven herself and you sell lots of records, you should be compensated.