Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

I love seeing teachers outside of school. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs.

The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.

Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.

When you don’t understand how to make a good use of something, you will abuse that thing.

We all have scars & deep pain. It'swhat makes us human & vulnerable.

Tea shook his head in dismay. “This is the end, Burt

Trifles make perfection - and perfection is no trifle.

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.

The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.

Some great friendships can be formed because you see one another at your best and worst.

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

The heat of charity opens the doors of the heart. The heat of charity brings solar faith to the Mind. Charity is Conscious Love.