“My home is not a place, it is people.”

“The world is made by the people who show up for the job.”

“Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.”

“The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.”

“It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.”

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”

“If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.”