I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess -

When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.

People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.

With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.

The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.

When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.

It's a funny thing, how much time we spend planning our lives. We so convince ourselves of what we want to do, that sometimes we don't see what we're meant to do.

I'm sorry...I just don't know what's wrong with me..

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.

First and foremost, that's what I am, I'm a writer. I can't draw worth a darn. I don't draw, I write.

Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

I ask you to ensure that humanity is served by wealth, and not ruled by it.

There are several ways to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory.

While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

We have a pope [Francis] who's very popular among the Catholic faithful and non-Catholics, but there's no doubt he's going to continue to face resistance from conservatives inside the church.