But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

I love being a woman and I love being feminine.

I don't know how it is up North, of course, but down South there are times when Southern women feel a need for privacy.

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me, have all fallen during a man repeller stage funny how life works out like that.

A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.

Only when we stop holding others accountable for all of our troubles can we truly be free.

Out of all of the Star Trek movies, I happen to like the most recent one the best. I think it was the best one ever done.