To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.

I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging sexuality is our central preoccupation, the idea of disfigurement of a breast is particularly horrifying.

I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them.

God warns us not to love any earthly thing above Himself, and yet He sets in a mother's heart such a fierce passion for her babes that I do not comprehend how He can test us so.

If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.

It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.