Whenever I'm with my [teenager] I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

Libraries are the pride of the city.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

The authentic answer is always the question’s vitality. It can close in around the question, but it does so in order to preserve the question by keeping it open.

But reality had other ideas.

Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change!

Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement should be held to.

It's interesting for me to always make myself look very different.

The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.

You can't go to sleep without a cup of tea and maybe thats the reason that you talk in your sleep.

I have a great fear for the moral will of Americans if it takes more than a week to achieve the results.

I'm not elitist. I like to do crowd-pleasing stuff which is a bit smart, but is just about belly laughs.

World peace is one project that we have to do together.