as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

People change and forget to tell each other.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

It's a Christmas miracle. I had no tree. Now I have a forest.

Virtue is relative at best, there's nothing worse than a sunset when your driving due West.

What I invite people to do is to look at their lives just the way that they have lived them. Not to change anything, and not to do positive thinking at all.

The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget.

Like world describers before me, those mapmakers in the seventeenth centure, I had laid down my first faintly drawn border. With that one tentative mark, my world expanded by a few freeing degrees.

The acne thing was bad. The shoulders, the face, my voice changed. I had a period every other week.

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.