Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.

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 was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth

Kindness is going out of your way to perform favors regarded as wonderful by the recipient.

What a man dares to do, he should dare to confess- unless he is a coward.

Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative.

In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism.

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.

I express myself through clothes, but clothes don't define me.

Retirement is a waste of time. The economy needs you!

Disempowerment - whether defined in terms of a lack of self-confidence , apathy, fear, or an inability to take charge of one's own life - is perhaps the most unrecognised problem in Africa today.