Knowing sorrow well I learn to succor the distressed.

They can do all because they think they can.

As the American public continues to focus more intensely on illegal immigration and securing the nation's borders, the number of members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus continues to grow.

If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.

Fortune sides with he who dares

Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.

Love conquers all things.

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

For they can conquer who believe they can.

Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.

Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.

Even the beautiful eyes have seen ugly things

The two things that truly belong to ourselves are our thoughts and actions.

He walked over to where the three were standing. “I see all the beauty is on this side of the room.” Viktoria gave a wicked grin. “Well, it was.

Jesus did not come to strike a balance between grace and truth. He brought the full measure of both.

Naturally, I’ve always been mad about clothes. You don’t get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute.

The coming being is whatever being.

Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.

I am not a great prose stylist. I'm a storyteller. There are thousands of people who don't like what I do. Fortunately, there are millions who do.

Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.

I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living.