You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

Her short blond hair shifted in the wind, and she appeared the very definition of peace and comfort. Like she belonged in the world that had existed before everything was scorched.

Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

Without just one nest A bird can call the world home Life is your career

I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another.

What we do with the things we have makes the biggest difference in the quality of life

It is wrong to believe that Hispanics are Democrats. Hispanics are traditionally and historically conservative, not just socially conservative, but fiscally conservative.

I believe the Rolling Stones wanted to play in Golden Gate Park.

I find the best things are done for yourself or start as a small project and become a big thing.

The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food.