“She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.”

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway

You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

You remind me of a smoked cigarette.

There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.

No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world.

A joyous person abounds with energy and feels buoyant, because he or she is running a higher frequency current of energy through his or her system.

I want people to feel like they can do anything.

I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

I always feel like I’m the one with everything to prove.

I feel I can still do the same job as I did 10 years ago – I’ve just got a few more wrinkles!

The only problems I’ve ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people.