I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

People who keep journals have life twice

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

The home is a place where we show our children that we can communicate, learn, and succeed together.

Everything is perpetually becoming new.

I like to come to Washington, D.C., at least once a year. Why should my tax money travel more than I do?

we have become masters of projection—pushing the responsibility for our own thoughts outward so that the consequences of our thoughts become someone else's problem.

I must go in, the fog is rising.

Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'.

I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.

If it had and answer, it wouldn't really be love, would it?

You have to constantly redefine who you are.

Five hundred and fifty generations have lived here. Only the stories we tell each other will create us as a true Canadian people.