The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help

The night is a strawberry.

Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery cart, she’d pretty much know who they were.

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity.

But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.

Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.

It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.

The worst denial of all is being in denial that we’re in denial in the first place. And I would wonder if that’s not exactly where most of us live out most of our lives.

When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all of the important female directors from Mexico. There were four. That was it.

Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.

It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

When pressure's on and when the spotlight's on, I feel like it ultimately ends up becoming some of my better moments.

Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us.

Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.

A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.

A first hint of the power of the electronic media to bring disaster directly into living rooms came with the radio broadcast of the explosion of the zeppelin "Hindenburg," in 1937 . . .

Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love