Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long. Good things come to those who wait.

Friends are the family that you choose.

Good things come to those who wait.

You can never have too much money.

When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

Hypocrites get offended by the truth.

What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you're so ugly on the inside?

Never mind, said Hachiko each day. Here I wait, for my friend who's late. I will stay, just to walk beside you for one more day.

Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.

One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. "They're straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won't die."

The kitchen door, painted red from the day Naomi moved in, and a geranium, also red, outside on the stoop, gave the whole area a feeling of whimsy.

I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but we can usually say what we don't with a fair amount of specificity.

I wish it were O.K. in this country to look one's age, whatever it is. Maturity has a lot going for it, even in terms of esthetics. For example, you no longer get bubblegum stuck in your braces.

God's revelation is in the gospel not only reveals who He is, but it also reveals who we are.

I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.

You will be faced with facing all the things in yourself that keep you from knowing who you are, you'll have to stand up to roles and definitions that your family and culture have given you.

The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.

Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.

We do not live by what is possessed but by what is promised.