... In our family, if you said the words 'I feel, ' they better be followed with 'hungry' or 'cold'. Because we didn't get personal, that's just how it was.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow - James Matthew Barrie

For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer reach them.

When hopeful and hopeless come together, both will learn great things from each other: Hopeful will learn the horror of being hopeless and the hopeless will learn the beauty of being hopeful!

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

The country's present supply of foreign news depends largely on how best a number of dry goods merchants in New York think they can sell underwear.

Human beings are curious by nature.

I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

There's never been a parent in my life.

I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.