"It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself."
— Betty Friedan

"Don't mistake activity with achievement."
— John Wooden

"He was raw and sharp and rich and throbbing with life. He was sweet blood after a long hunt. How could she have mistaken Aiden's kisses for this? They had been delicious and smooth like the brief comfort of chocolate, but they had never been enough."
— Annette Curtis Klause (Blood and Chocolate)

"The conclusion I have reached is that,above all,dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments. They are there when we think we are alone. Think of what they could tell us. They sit on the laps of presidents. They see acts of love and violence, quarrels and feuds, and the secret play of children. If they could tell us everything they have seen, all of the gaps of our lives would stitch themselves together."
— Carolyn Parkhurst (The Dogs of Babel)

"Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?"
— Budd Schulberg

"He has half the deed done who ha made a beginning."
— Quintus Horatius Flaccus