Recognising clichés is a sign of aging.

Depression weakens a person at every level and bullies can smell weakness like dogs smell fear.

Sweet as the past may be, it best remains pressed between the pages of memory, savoured for a moment or two on quiet Sunday afternoons.

When you feel that unpleasant darkness invading your mind, read this book and these stories will help you return to the light and warmth of life.

Voices have a language of their own and communicate much more than the words that they say.

Everything has a reason, though it cannot always be deduced for we cannot see the full picture of a life at any point in time.

I already knew the next story that I was going to rewrite from the beginning. Mine.

I seek spirituality and self-knowledge.

IT is only when we are no longer in control--because of sickness, death, or our own bad choices--that we no longer cling. The path to salvation is the path of humiliation.

Jack had an actor's control." Chuck Spalding

So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important— self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.

The only inequalities that matter begin in the mind. It is not income levels but differences in mental equipment that keep people apart, breed feelings of inferiority.

I remember when I first won the Academy Award, and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again.

I think to be a good veterinarian, you have to like people.

Nothing is uglier than the sinner, nothing so leprous or fetid; the scar of his crimes is still raw, and he stinks like the cave of Hell.

Everyone is lonely sometimes, even married people. But most single women (as well as women with spouses) actually enjoy their solitude.

Yeah, I have animosity, a chip on my shoulder. But I love, too.