woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must learn to protect herself

The only way you can be the best at something is to be the best you can be.

What about desserts?" I asked. "If the world comes to an end, I'm going to want cookies.

I never really thought about how when I look at the moon it;s the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.

If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.

I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.

I hate the moon. I hate tides and earthquakes and volcanoes. I hate a world where things that have absolutely nothing to do with me can destroy my life and the lives of people I love.

I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.

Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.

What's the point of God making us human if He doesn't want us to act like we're human?' 'To see if we can rise above our natures,'Megan said.

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

I came to the Braves on business, and I intended to see that business was good as long as I could.

If we cut open the bud of a beautiful rose in order to see how it is 'packed' and what it is going to look like, what sort of a bloom will we get?

Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

Ours was a storytelling family even in pleasing times, and in those days my parents looked on words as our sustenance, rich in their flavor and wholesome for the soul.

I don't know how to make people like me. Cinna, how do you make people like you?

I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.