We all get self-centered.

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.

It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.

We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.

You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.

It is not when a man is at the end of his life, but when a man is at the end of his profession, that his soul shows itself.

What is that thing? It looks like a model of the human digestive tract made from broken beer bottles and sadness.

And wishes, truly wishes, that she could say the same herself. Because hurting herself would be so much easier.

I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see beyond the sort of haze of hatred that the Hindu nationalists had been spreading.

Ah, if I could only pray the way that dog looks at meat.

I started a PhD in English at the University of Chicago because I loved poetry-which I now realize is like saying I studied vivisection because I loved dogs.

The first instinct is love.

Your apocalypse was fab.

Indecision may or may not be our biggest problem.

In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin.