She knows herself to be at the mercy of events$$$ and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

The human heart...tells us that we are more alike than we are unalike.

Hate$$$ it has caused a lot of problems in the world$$$ but has not solved one yet.

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian$$$ repressive and murderous society.

My mistakes are my life.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

You think you can avoid [pain$$$] but you actually can't. If you do$$$ you just get sicker$$$ or you feel more pain. But if you can speak it$$$ if you can write it$$$ if you can paint it$$$ it is very healing.

No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

Being human means learning to see the common humanity in us all.

In words$$$ as fashions$$$ the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic$$$ if too new$$$ or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried$$$ Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.