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.

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.

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.

Your yearning for God must supersede all other desires. It must be like a gnawing hunger and a burning thirst.

Be good on terms with everyone but only keep a few close.

Most of the time our stress is useless. It's because we don't see the outcome of things. God does.

I am going to give my psychoanalyst one more year then I'm going to Lourdes.

Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

The one thing I have found about Hollywood is it's a town full of people who believe in themselves, often to a degree where they're what you would call "delusional."

We will accomplish all of the steps .And, when we do, peace and law and justice and prosperity will prevail. Crime will go down. Border crossings will plummet. Gangs will disappear.

If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.

I am so happy to see more and more people in this country are becoming addicted to cheese.

Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable.