Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.

Do you think I will suffer myself to be baffled?

. . . and he knew that our dreams are none the less terrible to lose, because they have never been the realities for which we have mistaken them.

. . . when the horror of his grief was new to him, and every object in life, however trifling or however important, seem saturated with his one great sorrow.

The greatest obstacle to your progress and growth is often your unwillingness to pay the necessary price through sacrifice.

The Cottage Diner’s homey lights glowed onto black asphalt which just sucked up the beams to spit out more shadows.

I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.

I was told 50 percent of the population gets cancer. Everybody is going to be affected.

Three thousand people singing back your songs is an incredible feeling.

I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.

I urge you to be challenged and inspired by what you do not know.

Dear young people, the Church expects great things of you and your generosity. Don’t be afraid to aim high.

Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart.

Fenway is the essence of baseball