The Christian woman should remember that she cannot buy true attractiveness; that radiance which really shines forth in beauty is of the heart and spirit and not of the body.
The existence of other people is essentially awkward.
That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.
The secret is that there is no secret.
There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain. . . . Unlike the slight implications of quotidian dilemmas that confront the average citizen in other areas of life. . . the stakes in this realm could not be higher. For chances are that at some point along the line you will hold in your hands another person's heart. There is no greater responsibility on the planet. However you contend with this fragile organ, which pounds or seizes in accordance with your caprice, will take your full measure.
You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.
The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport.
Sadness is very close to hate.
How does it happen that something that makes so much sense in the moonlight doesn't make any sense at all in the sunlight?
So listen everybody to what I got to say, there's hope for tomorrow, if we wake up today.
I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them.