Everything matters terribly to children, you know, they're fresh and unformed.

The best things arrive on time.

when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.

There are no happy endings, there are only happy people.

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in them as food.

A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.

my rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always, stubbornly, opened it at the other.

We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light.

... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self.

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

When I was pregnant. I exercised and was healthy, but it was also the first time since I was 14 that I wasn't on a diet.

The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.

Some people look at the surface, while some see what's deep down. The most important thing is that the film should somehow stay with them until the very end.

That's what we all do: endlessly take the long way around.

I don't know about flying, but sometimes it feels like I have these little wings on my feet.

It is unthinkable to allow complete strangers, whether individually or collectively as state legislators or others in government, to make such personal decisions for someone else.

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.