The hardest roads are often empty

Literature is analysis after the event.

But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.

I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.

I just want to be a nice girl from the Midwest - I don't want to have to act like a heavy to be taken seriously, and I resent that I have to be so pushy and political sometimes just to do my job.

For things to change, you have to change. For things to be different, you have to be different. Before financial success can occur personal growth must occur.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life!

Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.

I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff.

In ten years [i.e., 1980] all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.

Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo.