Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.

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.

For ourselves, who are ordinary men and women, let us return thanks to Nature for her bounty by using every one of the senses she has given us.

Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

The average political poem - especially the kind that wears this label all too proudly - is both dull and full of brow-beating triteness.

I've found that balance is key. I'm no longer an extremist in any one direction.

I don't like your tone," was Violet's standard answer when one of her children was winning an argument.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

The only thing a star asks is to be allowed to twinkle.

Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.

Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed.