I realized I wasn't going to find a man until I was willing to expose myself to possible harm, to assume the risks of rejection and betrayal and heartbreak that came along with caring about someone. Someday, I promised myself, I would be ready for that kind of risk.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

Aristotle

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Walker Percy

People who never get carried away should be.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Being a mother is the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me in my life.

Cindy Margolis

Win the crowd and you will win your freedom.

Proximo

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Charles Bukowski

I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.

K. D. Lang

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

Woodrow Wilson

I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.

Paula Poundstone

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.