The happiest folks are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. -The Crone's Eyes

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.

Will history remember us, I wonder? I do hope so - to imagine that one might do something, touch an event somehow, & thereby transcend the bounds of a single human lifetime!

To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused forgiveness.

Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?

That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.

Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.

The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself.

Because desperate people cling to hope like sailors to their wreaks.

Inspiration can come from anywhere, and a lot of the time, it depends on how you feel when you get up in the morning.

Our economy is robust and will remain strong as more Americans who want a job find one. Republican economic policies based on tax relief are working for the American people.

I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour

There is no such thing as an unmusical person.

People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'

I didn't know that I'd like it this much, coaching both boys and... seeing how excited they are to play hockey. It reminds you of when you were that age and you wanted to be out on the ice.

Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible.

I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her.

Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.

Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.