There's this magical sense of possibility that stretches like a bridge between June and August. A sense that anything can happen.

Parents aren't supposed to cry. Or get scared. Or lie. Right? I thought I knew all the rules. But there are no rules.

But, standing in the fading golden sunlight now, I can feel some of the scars of the summer stabbing over. I can feel the promise of a new beginning.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

To live without any regret is to act right.

Your tone of voice can be conveyed in both the words you speak and in the words you write.

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.

Everything, as you well know . . . cannot always be sweetness and light.

If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class.

We try not using medications initially, and we use something called behavioral therapy for insomnia. This changes behaviors people do in bed, none of the tossing and turning.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Is Not An Economist, She Is A Demographer

I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.