No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.

By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

He has never understood that sometimes real love requires one to let the beloved go. Probably he never will.

We don't love a woman for what she says but we like what she says because we love her.

Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

Your homecoming will be my homecoming

Prayer is the fruit of joy and thankfulness.

No matter how sorted you think you are, you will always be surrounded by people who are lost and angry. They will test you time and time again.

It is necessary to constantly remind ourselves that we are not an abomination.

There are more Baptist preachers in Texas than Baptist missionaries in all the world.

Jasper chuckled, shaking his head. " You truly are one frightening little monster.