Every time I finish a book, it's my favorite. I have a lot of favorites. I did just finish Jane Eyre and it was fabulous. I didn't want it to end.

I've discovered that in order to make big changes in the world, we have to begin at home -- within ourselves

Some people say that success equals money, but frankly, I don't think success is money at all ... Success is being the best at whatever you want to do well at.

I believe you are one of the people that can lift the corners of the universe.

I wonder how you say goodbye to someone forever?

Fight your battles with words, not fists

You got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and latch on to the affirmative. Don't mess with Mr. In Between.

I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another. --Mallory Pike

Because, you see, you only need one friend for a party. One is enough. Two is enough. Anything is enough.' ~pg 107; Adam on friendship

I want her back" I said "I want HIM back"~Charlie

For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known.

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we know people in our own lives.

Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.

I needed to see, needed to know, needed a whole lot more.

Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.

The most important promises are the ones we make to ourselves. The promises we makes to ourselves are the things that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.

But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

If you want to be in the automotive business, you go to Detroit, and you figure it out. If you want to be in entertainment, go to where it's at. Go to Hollywood, go to New York.

Women are one and all a set of vultures.

My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.