There was always a way, when one knew what one wanted.

Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.

She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.

She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.

This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.

Why, she wondered, do we always reserve our worst hatred for our own?

It was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt.

Nothing is more effective in engaging your day than a genuine smile when appropriate.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them.

The tender Mercy of God has given us one another.

It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.

It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.

The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.

And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.

We have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.