As with all travel, replacing familiar surroundings with the unknown fires an electric charge that awakens a sense of adventure.

She was an experimental child but compassionate with it.

Why don't these translation books just include general phrases that could be applied in a variety of situations like, "Say nothing unless it's in English"?

Her voice had suddenly jumped a couple of social classes to underline her ownership status.

It was an undemanding job both physically and mentally, which was fine. Stress was for the rich and hard-working.

I had intended to visit the haunting ground of my school days. Subconsciously I wanted to be in a place where anxiety, responsibility and financial burden had yet to surface.

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

Daily prayer, daily grace.

There’s no such thing as fate. It’s just the word men give to decisions which have worked out badly.

There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.

Americans do not turn away from duties because they are hard.

I'd like to have a kid, but I'd probably get a Frank Sinatra Jr. instead of a Gilbert Gottfried Jr. I'd totally screw up like that.

The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.

Love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

Acting's difficult for me because I think you have to be passionately involved in what you're doing.

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.