She say guilt is a useless emotion." "Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals.

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.

The irony of a writer is he/she craves privacy to pen words that crave the public.

Shhhhh, I am trying to read.

Have any sheep been seen walking out of the Library with seagoing adventurers clinging to their wool?

Humor brings insight and tolerance.

My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.

No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Our nation is today a powerful nation.

He will wipe the tears from all faces.' It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will be required

My message to you all is hope, courage and confidence.