Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

What has been forgotten.... is never something purely individual.

Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

A positive attitude will empower you to be more resilient to proactively adapt to change.

Hang sorrow care'll kill a cat.

Trust me not at all, or all in all.

The dark is light enough.

Berlin's great secret is that he says exactly what he means; sometimes he hits a gigantic line both musically and lyrically -- almost Wagnerian in its strength.

Eradicate self-justification. Then alone can you annihilate your ego.