Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

Always tell what you feel. Do what you think...

Can't figure women. Sometimes they're afraid of a spider, other times they're not afraid to stand right up to the devil.

Flashlights would have been nice. Next adventure, Coralee was going to bring a flashlight.

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.

Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.

Never forget that Hitler was a Catholic.

You can't do everything. You can't do health and forestry and agriculture. You've got to focus and do one or the other.

He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's going to be told.

I practice the artist's golden rule. I wouldn't want somebody telling me how to finish my painting, I'm not going to tell him how to finish his movie or how to shape his movie.