You were the first in every way that counted.

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

People loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.

He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life.

Cops before breakfast.Before coffee even. As if Mondays weren't bad enough.

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity

Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.

To find them all in one package...well, perhaps better not to dwell on his package in my fragile state.

I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.

I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.

Another vindication I had is the fact that I believed the Christian message and the gospel of the kingdom is good enough to fix the world’s problems

This is the opportunity the fellowship of Jiu Jitsu affords us. To reach our highest potential of self, and then to offer that self to another.

Nothing says I'm serious about success more than waking up with the sun.

I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.

We have no money. We have no possessions. Maybe that is why we value the things we do have ... loyalty and friendship.

Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.

In this world you're either growing or you're dying so get in motion and grow.

If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life.

To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.