The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.

When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.

I am not plain, or average or - God forbid - vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge and a cherry on top.

When I was your age I knew nothing about the world or my place in it. I figured I'd be someone's wife, then someone's mother. It never occurred to me to be someone myself.

As long as you know who you are, and see what makes you happy, it doesn't matte how others see you

Finally, Carol said in a tone of hopelessness, "Darling, can I ask you to forgive me?" The tone hurt Therese more than the question. "I love you, Carol." "But do you see what it means?

In the moment when he died at my hand he had his own heart's desire—not the actual future, but a hope for the best possible future, one that he could not himself imagine.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.

Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfilment.

A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants.

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken - what needs to be outlawed is war.

If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff.