When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you re taken into life's severest confidence. You are undeceived.

Optimism is when you're not sure where life is going to take you, so naturally you anticipate the best possible outcome

Boys will be boys, that's what everyone always says. But no one ever mentions how girls have to be something other than themselves altogether.

Sometimes all you’ve accomplished by the end of the day is to have maneuvered your body through space without grave incident.

Sometimes a day is a symbolic day, and you behave symbolically. Sometimes you search inside for a feeling, and, finding none, you remember that no feeling is frequently the most possible feeling.

Mine is not a smiling face. Strangers on the street always say, Smile! But my muscles do not naturally go there.

...someone who knows she is beautiful, who is always told that she is beautiful, but who, deep down, does not feel very beautiful.

We are spontaneous when we are at our genuine best.

If people listen to music and dance every day, they find happiness and sacred solutions to any problem.

In grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him.

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

Out of near disaster, came real progress.

I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

My grandma has said many of the things her character says. But she was much nicer! I made her meaner for dramatic purposes.

Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

I guess the glass ceiling is in the West. For us, it's the glass wall.

If you get married, you lose all your benefits. That's insane! We should give people bonuses for getting married, and sending signals and talking about it to the society.

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.