We live ruins amid ruins.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Beauty without expression tires.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and ignore the truth.

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel.

I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.

For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers.

I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.

I've loved acting and dancing since I was a kid. Before anyone thought I was pretty or before I had a voluptuous figure, that was what I was going to do.

Silence is like a flame, you see?

And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed.

You nickednamed my daughter after the Loch Ness Monster?