Being in a rage was rather like being out in a thunderstorm - you couldn't hear yourself think.

Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.

if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.

Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.

Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.

Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.

I was just down in Dallas, Texas...the Assassination Museum...it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it.

There is never a reason to give up! It's always going on somehow!

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

As a young girl, I remember singing CeCe Penniston's 'Don't Walk Away.' It was like my jam.

It really doesn't matter to me. We're just talking about clothes. I can understand what the NBA is trying to do. I love my sneakers, but we're just talking about clothes.

I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as she is, now, for as long as this dwindling may take.

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.

It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.