A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart.

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

My soul recognized him and it was easy to be in sync with him—to feel like I’d known him forever.

I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

Words are, quite simply, weapons. How a person or an act or a thought looks depends entirely upon how - and by whom - it is described.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

We see that love manifested normally in the soldier, in the parent, in the lover, and in the spiritual teacher.

[I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored.

I think Missy Elliot is pretty creative, I mean at least trying to take it to the future.

I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.

Nobody needs to prove to anybody what they're worthy of, just the person that they look at in the mirror. That's the only person you need to answer to.

Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.