It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.

Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

The world was hers for the reading.

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.

Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?

They learned no compassion from their own anguish. Thus their suffering was wasted.

But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.

Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion.

Francie, huddled with other children of her kind, learned more that first day than she realized. She learned of the class system of a great Democracy.

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

Our lives are filled with meeting wonderful people. Make sure those that have become a part of your life hear your words of appreciation.

I want to point out, that this is not my fault that everyone's afraid of me, because I did not kill a couple people the other day.

No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people.

I'm very involved with Pilates as well; you have to be careful. I can't do headstands any more, I have a neck and a spinal problem, but I used to do it.

My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.

I was never pegged to be the next great American tennis player by any means. I wasn't a prodigy. I'm a late bloomer. Whatever happens, I'm proud of what I've done.

This means the world to me that you guys are here with me celebrating with me. Thank you. Thank you. I can’t express it enough.

Love is the fundamental relatedness in the universe.

What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.