Sentences that begin with "all women" are never, never true.

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

Regrets are as personal as fingerprints.

Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard

I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for keeping things the way they are.

You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct?

Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.

It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.

You wouldn't want to be caught wearing cheap perfume would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume on your conduct?

Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed.

Invoking the moral high ground somehow makes you lose it. Using a secret as a weapon makes you almost as bad as the transgressor.

We can't always win the game

When you think like a child your imagination is free and anything is possible.

You can go as far as your mind lets you.

For some things there are no wrong seasons. Which is what I dream of for me.

Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.

While I support initiatives to improve quality and efficiency in Medicare, I do not believe that these efficiencies should come at the cost of patient well being.

Colouring does not depend on where the colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on form and outline, on where that is put.

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.