Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.

You create your future by what you do in the present

I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.

They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.

Love is nothing but lust misspelled.

I do very little industrial design. I'm asked a lot, but I certainly don't see myself as an industrial designer.

Cool? Am I cool? I don't know, but I hope my characters are cool, in the sense of iconic. That's my job, at its very essence.

I'm always surprised to hear or read my work described, "In angry tones, she says." No! In truthful tones! Does truth have a tone? I don't know.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.