If you would have peace, genuine peace, you must accept all the aspects of your personality and learn to be comfortable with them.

We’re born alone and we die alone, I accept that. But why, God, do we have to be alone in the middle?

happy women get softer and rounder.

I'm Irish!...When I feel well I feel better than anyone, when I am in pain I yell at the top of my lungs, and when I am dead I shall be deader than anybody.

Waiting is worse than knowing. Grief rends the heart cleanly, that it may begin to heal; waiting shreds the spirit.

Wine could become a place rather than a beverage.

Intuition is the voice of the spirit within you.

The pain we bring to others we cannot escape ourselves.

He took her into his arms again, using all his strength to be gentle, and let his lips touch hers so lightly he could hardly feel it.

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.

Bodies wear out to remind us they are temporary, and force us to spend more thought on our spirits

They talk about big skies in the western United States, and they may indeed have them, but you have never seen such lofty clouds, such towering anvils, as in Iowa in July.

Ideas are bulletproof

Don't need a degree in rocket science to do this job.

Everything looks better in the morning.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

Where magic is concerned, there is always an initial decision, an initial willingness to let it enter your life. If that is not there neither is magic.

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

It's always good to hear that people you like are happy.