All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

There is nothing in the world stronger than gentleness.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

People never think about words, they only feel them.

Sadness is so ungrateful.

People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.

Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason.

It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal.

One cannot have the same love for getting insulted (apmaan) as he does for getting importance (maan), can he? He cannot love loss as much as he loves profit, can he?

When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he is a saint orthey are not telling the whole story.

Grace is given of God but knowledge is bought in the market.

Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

I lost my mother two years ago to cancer. But the greatest gift she gave to me was showing me how to be a wonderful and loving mom to my two sons, even now that they are grown men.

I'm obsessed with 'Thelma and Louise,' and therefore obsessed with Callie Khouri who wrote that movie.

I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.

Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.

With vampires, there is such a great tradition that you suddenly find yourself a part of. Each generation reinvents what that means to them.

On film Vanilla Sky: You're going to get the full experience of what love is.