That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head.

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

Impossibility is a log thrown on the fires of love.

Most damning of phrases: He meant well.

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe.

Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.

Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

Know who you are and be who you are insofar as it is deem fit, for there is nothing so contemptuous to be who you are!

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the ru)e.

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

When you are young, you enjoy a sustained illusion that sooner or later something marvelous is going to happen, that you are going to transcend your parents' limitations.

Gratitude is really, really attractive. A child who is genuinely grateful makes you want to do anything for her, and that is true of adults as well.

When the Christian doesn't find joy on account of his happenings, he can always find joy in spite of them.

I just love to sing, so like my dad's advice when I was younger - anytime you get a chance to sing, just go out there and do it! I truly just love the actual singing.

Nothing comes naturally to me...I have to work and rework and that's where the ideas come from - from years of working on it and thinking about it.

Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.

Your success and happiness start with you.