I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice.

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.

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Jesus Christ saves the lost sheep.

Magic is just potential for creation. It follows no rules and breaks them all

Work! Thank God for the swing of it for the clamoring hammering ring of it.

Running on different types of racetracks is challenging - not only for the drivers, but even more for the team members who have to make adjustments to the cars before each race.

Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet

A YA heroine does not have to pick up a weapon nor wear men's clothing to be equal to her male counterparts.

To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.

Last time I was in Canada Celine Dion had just given birth to identical twins. Which is quite an achievement given her age and face.

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.