People with the purest souls are capable of the greatest evils.

You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.

The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.

Height has nothing to do with it, it is your strength that counts.

For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.

Wishes and wants do not transform a person

Everything is About To Change.

30 cents, two transfers, loveThinking hard about you I got on the bus and paid 30 cents car fare and asked the driver for two transfers before discovering that I was alone.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

It's important to meet with the people who can shape future events, and who might be causing a current problem. And to ignore them means that the problem will continue.

My journey as a player is complete.

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.

Vampire. Dangerous. Unknowable. Seriously creepy. This one's name was Constantine. We'd met before.

He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.