It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

It's always harder to be the one who's left behind than the one who leaves.

When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don’t hand me a book?

The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.

In Texas, two things are cherished above all else- football and gossip.

I'm a simple person who hides a thousand feeling behind the happiest smile.

Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.

It's all about you, isn't it?

The air around her was cool lately, as if she were creating a vacuum with her unhappiness.

The heart upon which, the sense of humanity and the passion has died, that heart is the emptiness of a conception of love, mercy, and fairness of the principles. Indeed, such people are the terrorists, whether in uniform or not, in power or not, who work,

When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood God blessed the green island he saw it was good. The Emerald of Europe it sparkled and shone In the ring of this world the most precious stone.

If the vision is not strong enough to motivate me, I am part of the wrong vision.