What can I now do to use my misfortunes constructively, to turn my suffering to advantage by finding something worthwhile to do that I could not have done so well if these tragedies had not occurred?

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

We are all prisoners of circumstance at one point or another.

Spring time is a time for new adventure.

Life will always be full of great possibilities, as long as one approaches it with a mind that deeply believes in an endless journey of success and happiness.

Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.

Moths are the ones that freak me out. It's something to do with the way that, if they get squashed, they turn to dust. There's something very wrong about that. It all feels a bit Gothic.

It's like an open mark [for the terrorists], do whatever you wanna do, nothing's gonna happen. Take our youth out of the country, infiltrate our country in so many different ways.

The more moral you pretend to be, the less moral you are; the less moral you try to be, the more moral you are.

my wild, uncured, erratic, incomprehensible heart.

Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.