Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.

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.

When you get more middle fingers than thumbs up, it's a progress.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

It is extremely natural for us to desire to see such our thoughts put into the dress of words, without which indeed we can scarce have a clear and distinct idea of them our selves.

Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the Altar.

As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.

Self-esteem is the basis of any democracy.

The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living

The chastisement of our peace was upon Him and with His stripes we are healed.

The way most doctors practice medicine right now isn't working.

I think you need to have a tax system that basically is flat, fair and simple. And - that you can put on a post card. I mean, even Timothy Geithner could do this one and get it on time.