For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars.

I look at my roommates who are so proud of me that it makes me proud.

That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you - without you asking.

A good mother is irreplaceable.

I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.

But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.

We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don't judge.

Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.

I even love the smell of books.

I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who want to know the facts, and those who want to make up a nice story to feel better. I wish I was the kind who made up stories.

I want to start where language ends.

Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.

Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.

All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand.

Pushing legislation that would undercut our troops just as we're beginning to make progress in Baghdad.

I do think, from what we know of people who've had near-death experiences, that they often feel a warmth, and a light and a sense of love, and that would be great if that were there when we died.

We are not a monolithic group of individuals, not every single person believes the exact same thing.

I wanted to stay this way forever. Which, it turns out, was exactly five more minutes.

Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

If you love her", I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.