The way I figure it, we know we got this world, so live in this one while you’re here. I figure the next one will take care of itself.

The key to being a warrior is not to be afraid of who you are.

To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.

Maybe you've had skin next to your skin, but when was the last time you let yourself be touched?

Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.

I'm an old Catholic. I don't believe in anything Catholic but I do believe that Catholicism keeps me from committing suicide.

Sometimes the world is so beautiful it hurts.

Her heartbeat was in her hands, her heart beat the way she moved her head, her whole body was her heart beating.

There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.

Why else do we live, except to be loved and remembered by those we love?

Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.

Eventually sinking into despair, [Heinrich von Kleist] shot himself in 1811 as part of a suicide pact made with a woman suffering from incurable cancer.

Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony that my husband and I find so joyful.

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

Happiness is something that you don't postpone. If you are postponing happiness - it is something you will probably never experience much of.

It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation.

I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better

Your hair tends to get used to the product you use. Every month or so I change it out.

Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.