I have forgotten more of my life than I remember, and with my forgetting I have lost my being.

There were times when it seemed the different parts of him where not all under the same management.

The silence sat down with them like an invisible creature with its finger to its lips.

Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

Change leads to growth. Resistance leads to rigidity. Rigidity leads to ...

Have patience, Aylin, this is only the beginning. I can give you this answer to your question, though. There are more than faeries and witches in these woods." -Finn

For 10 years, I have fought passionately for climate protection.

You know, there's a great saying in Texas - you've all heard it - "all hat and no cattle." Well, after seven years of George Bush, we need a lot less hat and a lot more cattle.

when people say you're charming you are in deep trouble.

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

Eyes like streams of melting snow,” she said, and it was all I could do not to roll my melting snow eyes.

Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson blood, songs that are filled with biblical wording that's no longer understood by a lot of people.

Video screenshot Facts and figures from Nelson Mandela's life, set to the trailer from 'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.' "Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished."