I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.

Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.

You can't fight your fate...It is predestined.

In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.

But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.

While she is lovely, we need to remember that her face is not what distinguishes her. Her beauty is a reflection of the virtue and talent she keeps inside.