The sparrow still falls.

The dachshund is a perfectly engineered dog. It is precisely long enough for a single standard stroke of the back, but you aren't paying for any superfluous leg.

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?

When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear.

Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.

God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners.

If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.

No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.

Watching him with one eye, she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.

Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.

God's got a lot of explaining to do. Of course, God never explains. When life breaks your heart, you're just supposed to pick up the pieces and start all over, I guess.

Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.

Fame is an illusion. Things can be given to you quite easily, but they get ripped away so quickly as well.

In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touched starved. Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.

Truth and ceremony are two things.

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.

There are endless ways to enhance beauty. You never know when you will find your perfect lipstick - unless you keep experimenting.

Sometimes I do get writer's block but it's more of a writer's doubt - I'll try and write but nothing goes anywhere because I start thinking everything sucks.

The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say what thou seest yond.