Don’t panic. If you write, you’ll be a writer.

Once you love, you cannot take it back, cannot undo it. What you felt may have changed, shifted slightly, yet still remains love.

Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.

She eventually forgave him, because she understood him.

All you have to go on is the faith of a kiss.

While she was in transit, being unattached was exhilarating, but the moment she stopped, so did the high.

Think about what binds you to your husband and he to you. Marvel at the strength of that bond, which is both abstract and concrete, spiritual and legal.

…she eventually forgave him, because she understood him.

No one knows how another person feels in private.

All this because one race did not have the decency to be ashamed of dealing in human flesh.

Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

That money was for working eight to twelve hour days ... it was not a welfare check.

I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.

A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a friend it may become painful: the old footing is not easy to recover.

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.

In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and seats on the board.

I just go out there and do what I do and try and hit my spots.

The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.