Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.