Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware.

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.

Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.

People don't always get what they deserve in this world.

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.

We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one.

He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.

When you see the political parties squabble, if a baby is not allowed to be born, all the other issues do not come into play.

Good dialogue is very important.

Oh yeah, I believe in God. I think there's much more evidence that there is a God than that there isn't. I don't believe that Mother Theresa and Hitler go to the same place.

She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.

I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.

Heaven is a house with porch lights.

I was inspired to write children's books, but without blood and gore.

In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place