Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.