You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.

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.

I know you think that we saved you or something, Jeremy, " he said. "That we were stronger than you. But we're not. We weren't. We're all just trying to survive however we can.

No wounded man shall sound me and live.

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

We have every confidence that earth and hell will not overtake you, but it will require that you move from your current plateaus and climb to higher ground.

Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.

My basic political posture is "what a shame the human race did this to earth." What we have done environmentally, politically, culturally.

He had won but he didn't feel like a winner.

Most of the real bad guys in the world are people like you and me; they're not stupid, and you can't smell their horns.

I have tried to make sure I knew the law and what the most recent changes were, and I've applied the law to the facts. I have not lost sleep over the decisions I have made.

We understand that we must make peace with nature - that our lives depend on it.