The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that two people are incompatible that is one is male and the other female.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

A finished person is a boring person.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

There's a threshold of pain, a person loses consciousness in order not to die. And there's a threshold of grief, it suddenly stops hurting. And you feel nothing. Nothing at all.

I make a lot of jokes about vegetarians in my act but most of them don't have the strength to protest.

There's no question that [Donald] Trump got elected because of rural America. And our party still is in denial. They don't get it.

Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences.

in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes

If you will focus on meeting other people’s needs, God will always make sure your needs are supplied. God will take care of your problems for you.

To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.

Teaching...can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply.

I really don't have favorites; I'm just a fan of movies, period.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.