you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece

I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.

Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.

...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.

Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion.

Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't.