The money when you're having a hit is great, but money can be taken from you. What can't be taken from you is the talent and the effect your work has.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me.

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

I love seeing teachers outside of school. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs.

The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.

Let us trust the power of love, and fly by spreading the wings of love.

You have always known they exist. Everyone feels their presence. Few know the truth. The world of Real Immortals is about to be revealed!

If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

Things will be far worse than they are now. And far better. I wait.

The bird's delirium does not interest the trees.

Gold has an almost atavistic lure. People feel it has a panacea effect.

Every day is your day if you claim it.

Religious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community.

An untrained or uneducated Marine ... deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment ... than the enemy.