The sun was directly overhead, bright against the flower’s exterior. Warm blueish-purple silhouettes pirouetted and danced along interior walls.

What I know definitively about life at this age … is absolutely nothing.

It will never be all that I want it to be…But it is always twice what I expected.

Patience is born to all cats. They just don't care to deploy it where others are concerned.

I hope that I’m a good man ... it would be enough.

Sometimes, insatiable curiosity and compassion are all that life requires of us.

I hope that I am a good man … it would be enough.

If you doubt your sanity, is that proof?

Some things don’t just happen, they happen because somebody decided to make them happen.

If success was an overnight journey, its prize would become valueless.

Writing is a great way of talking with an endless audience for never-ending time.

It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like.

As a woman you must unite with other women for a while and perhaps even reject the world of men, just to balance yourself.

The secretiveness. The stealth. Those were obviously the aspects of cocaine use I was addicted to.

Be careful, therefore, to take part only in the one Eucharist; for there is only one Flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ and one cup to unite us with His Blood.

She [Mary I] married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas.

Unconsciously I had discovered the commentator's secret weapon-that so long as you can wield words, it isn't necessary to know what you're talking about.

If we want the nation to move ahead, then we'll have to leave behind the thinking that Government will do everything...we all need to collectively devote to make our country move forward.