She looked over the colored boxes of smiling women holding plastic sticks. Why isn’t there a box showing a terrified teen?

We could adopt. there are lots of kids out there who could grow up to hate us as much as any kid we could make

Beginnings are easier to find in hindsight

How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?

One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.

We are selfish, my illness and I. We think only of ourselves. We shape the world around us into messages, into secret whispers spoken only for us.

There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in private.

Turn resolutely to work to recreation or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep and when you wake up you won't want to worry.

If a man does not control his temper, it is a sad admission that he is not in control of his thoughts.

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies

The real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind

Love is the only disease that makes you feel better.

Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.