Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.

You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.

Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it.

It's better to have nothing, ' the children were saying.

I have never distinguished readily between thinking and dreaming. I know my life would be much different if I could ever say, This I have learned from my senses, while that I have merely imagined.

...morality is a check upon the strongest temptations.

Dawn and its excesses always reminded me of heaven, a place where I have always known I would not be comfortable.

Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.

It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.

Cutting benefits is not the right answer. Raising the retirement age is not the best option.

Those who worship and adore the Lord through the Guru's Word forget all their pain and suffering.

I'm at this time in life when I have to take the opportunities I have left.

We are designed to run and we increase our chance of daily happiness when we do so.

One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.

All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.