The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.

Will history remember us, I wonder? I do hope so - to imagine that one might do something, touch an event somehow, & thereby transcend the bounds of a single human lifetime!

To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused forgiveness.

Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?

That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.

Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.

Because desperate people cling to hope like sailors to their wreaks.

But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960's.

The absence of inner intent for kashays is the same as the inner intent of the absolute Self (Parmatma). If one’s kashays are gone, then he becomes the ‘owner’ of the whole universe.

...the ratings agencies' problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction between risk and uncertainty.

Your waking adult life is going to be spent in what you do professionally, so you'd better like the journey and not just aim for the destination.

The Marines gave me a really strong sense of discipline and a work ethic that kicks in at my job.

To me photography can be simultaneously a record and a mirror or window of self-expression.

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense.

I was born to be a remarkable woman; it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die.

The best weapon is to sit down and talk.

Even the purest of teachers will face bitter criticism from those who feel threatened by him.