I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we’ve done, or relive a life already recorded.

Before you measure the years, you measure the days.

I would certainly make the attendance in college paid for, at least at a community college level or a state - you know, a sponsored university level so that if you wanted to go to college and if you had the grades - you might not go to Harvard - but you went to college.

If you want to be a good writer, make sure you read. I'm amazed by how many people don't bother to do that.

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

When a lost loved one appears before you, it's your brain that fights it, not your heart.

You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.