We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another.

Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.

The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways.

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I've always despised that type, but I see how it happens now

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

Hope does not leave without being given permission.

When we over emphasis that we need God for every little thing, then we begin to depend on miracles.

Every minute we waste in frustration over a task that seems overwhelming is a minute subtracted from the time we've allotted to enjoy life.

Listen through your screams to the wind still whispering: Don't give up -- Surrender!

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished.

An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.

I was too crazy in my teenage years and I wasn't doing anything that made any sense.

A good runner leaves no footprints.

Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.