What exactly did people do when they had all the time in the world and could do whatever they liked?

Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball.

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.

You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.

Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.

When you're good at making excuses, it's difficult to excel at anything else.

Unless you enjoy life passionately, you cannot be a good artiste. Practise what you like, be it sports or dancing.

Decisions in 10 minutes or less, or the next one is free.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart.

What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.

I've actually tried not to call myself a futurist for the last 25 years. I prefer "forecaster," but people call me a futurist, and it doesn't really bother me.

You did good Roza. Very good. Now sleep.

Astonish me in the morning!