I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

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.

Spirituality is to Religion, what Love is to Marriage. Spirituality is an emotional state of the mind, just like Love, while Religion on the other hand, is a social construct, quite like Marriage.

But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.

Do not allow the enemy of your soul to rob you of that unique quality God has breathed into you.

I hope you find, as I did, that happiness comes from noticing and enjoying the little things in life.

Oh yeah, I'm mentally screwed up for life. But I look good.

I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

Hannah writes of love with compassion and conviction.

What, in the name of common-sense, had I to do with any better society than I had always lived in?

New York ladies all look immaculate.