The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

People are always surprised that I have a funny side because I'm usually so intense, strong and dramatic. But, I'd love to do something really, really silly and funny.

For herself, she wanted sleet and ice, howling winds, thunder to shake the very stones of the Red Keep. She wanted a storm to match her rage.

My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.

I've always been a girl who loves to dress up.

If you don't step across the threshold of what you already know into the world of challenges, you never truly measure yourself.

I was not fortunate enough to run into Obama. We were at the same church per se, but I would never be there when he was there.

By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better & prepare for a better future.

Eternity is the now that does not pass away.

Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.

You don't just see and feel the movie, you see and feel every day you worked on it.