The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left.

You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.

Beatrix, do you know what happens to girls who ask such naughty questions?”“They’re ravished in haylofts?” she inquired hopefully.

My family has always believed that when we are faced with large and apparently impossible problems, the best solutions are found by the insane people, not the sensible ones.

Take too much time, and time will take you.

... But if I spend [all] my time *reading* about adventures, I won't actually be *having* them.

You thought I was peculiar, ” she said in a muffled voice.His mouth brushed the edge of her ear and settled against her neck. She felt that he was smiling. “Darling love… you are.

She felt tears slip from beneath her lashes, no matter how she tried to blink them back. Her heart was ablaze. It seemed that her entire life had led to this man, this moment of unexpressed love.

I knew that a man was not only himself but also who he wished to be.

Lies aren't true, so why would anyone tell them?

In times of great darkness, courage lights the way home.

The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough.

The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.

Friends and family matter most during hard times.

I try to spend a little bit of time on my knees every day, but it all begins for me with cherishing the dignity, the worth, the value of every human life.

I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.

I turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture.

I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy.