When you dance, your whole body dances, your skin and bones, your soul, The tips of your fingers and the roots of your hair. When you stop dancing you stop living.

He said: I don't like to read. And I said, honey, you haven't found the right girl.

for I determined that if Death came he should find me ready

The sacred soul writes the sacred words.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry it's - don't. I'm going to send out for some fried chicken.

I solemnly swear that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to the Queen when she pays her income tax.

She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.

Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy.

When I was 5 years old, my best friends were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen because we lived across the street from each other.

The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.