Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me.
 Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.

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.

Things hurt, and don't hurt, and hurt again.

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

For my part, I can compare her (a gossip) to nothing but the sun; for, like him, she knows no rest, nor ever sets in one place but to rise in another.

Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

It's hard to keep on being civil when they ask you such annoying questions.

You can have a strong government and a weak people, or strong people and weak government, but you cannot have both.

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross

I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away.