You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get trapped in the middle, and anyone in the middle just gets squished.' -Grandma

Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.

You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.

If you have an orderly mind, you'll be a winner no matter where you end up. If your mind is a jumble of junk, you'll be a loser. It's as simple as that.

You know, Joey, the medication has helped settle you down, but you have been a good kid all along. You are naturally good. I hope you know that about yourself. You have a good heart.

Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.

Don't ever go to war. Even if you win, the battle is never over inside you.

Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.

Because each book has its own special perfume.

When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was beaten into a stiff sheet of black ink.

...who proved that you don't have to do what your parents want, or what your boyfriend wants, for you to be happy. You just have to be yourself, for there is no love greater than self love

It has been my experience that those who claim to be the most spiritual are usually the least so.

Appetite is the beast in man, compassion is his spirit.

You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.

Knowing your responsibilities doesn't make you mature but acting up on it does.

Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we have a word for it, and not its alchemy

The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape.

Long visits don't make for good friends.

You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.

One must make the warrior walk his everyday walk.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.