Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.

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.

Don't worry about being a normal person, let the normal person worry about not being you.

The trouble with the dead, as I see it, is they don't stay that way.

I never knew how soothing trees are - many trees and patches of open sunlight and tree presences it is almost like having another being.

Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.

I'm surprised by how many people have not seen 'Footloose.'

That is what touches me most. When somebody says: you really made a difference.

If the milk industry can make their product seem sexy and increase consumer demand, there must be hope for music.

Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America.

I truly believe that the individual who learns to practice thanksgiving activates within himself and around himself continuous victories and blessings from God.

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.