The best way to die is when your living

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.

We think we are far more creative and wiser than others who are surviving and struggling. We never put us in their shoe. We always expect them to do the same.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.

I think dying is the ultimate high...

We have never declared war on China. We have only asked them to leave us in peace, to let us have our natural freedom.

It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.

By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities.

If men of genius only knew what love their works inspire!

There's nothing like the first horseback ride to make a person feel better off.

Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.

One thing, change, is what everyone says. The question is, what type of change? What's the right change to produce a different outcome for the people left behind by globalization?