You know if you pick up a beach read, you're excused from the problems in your own life and safe in a world with conflicts you understand, and you know you will get a happy ending.

It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise.

The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities,reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.

No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.

No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward knowledge, pleasure, consolation, wisdom, and hope.

Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?

It is never, never too late, in a story or in real life, to correct.

I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.

Their friendship is like a tapestry in a drawer. Today is the iron passing over the cloth, smoothing out the wrinkles, bring out the pattern that makes it unique and beautiful.

Somewhere I read that human beings are the only creatures to spend the present driving themselves crazy about the future.

Sophie felt as if she were encased in a glass globe called summer.

Wenn du weißt, behaupte, dass du es weißt. Und wenn du etwas nicht weißt, gib zu, dass du es nicht weißt. Das ist Wissen.

Love built on beauty soon as beauty dies.

Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.

Despatch is the soul of business.

I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her.

Honoring the moment is honoring every human being you meet. The only place where you can meet them is in the moment.

I spend far too much time on eBay buying lamps and upholstery remnants.

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.

I don't connect accessibility with lowest common denominator.

By surrendering, you create an energy field of receptivity for the solution to appear.