Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.

The truth doesn't care what we think of it.

No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.

Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.

Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

It is not a person’s depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.

Meditation on the Holy Scriptures is sweet to the soul.

It is the devotee's job to chant God's name. It is God's business to keep count.

I'm a name and a question.

Instinct ensures animals to have society. Reason ensures society to have animals

The devil is not abroad at night in the form of a cat or a wolf or any other animal. He lives eternally in the hearts of men.

Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing.

It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.

Don't call me an icon. I'm just a mother trying to help.

The thing most people don't pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It's 24/7.