This is not something anyone can teach you. Heartbreak you must learn on your own.

I’m sorry, ’ I whispered. I didn’t know whether I was sympathizing with her broken heart or apologizing for a family who had had theirs broken, too.

Even knowing, as I do now, that grace, power, and, yes, love can hide the darkest elements of the human heart, I would do it all again.

The hours were long, but the days were short, and as much as I willed it to never come, the end of summer arrived anyway.

Children like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again.

Men die but an idea does not.

Municipal laws are a supply to the wisdom of each individual; and, at the same time, by restraining the natural liberty of men, make private interest submit to the interest of the public.

At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.

To make lashes curl better, take a hair dryer to your eyelash curler for one or two seconds before using it.

Honestly if men are given a choice, we'll choose everything.

Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.

I quit Wall Street and decided that it was time to talk more about what was going on inside it, as it had changed. It had become far more sinister and far more dangerous.

Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.