It is the youngest in the family who tends to the elders to learn about the sacredness of life and the beauty of death.

Love is no conditions. Love is given, despite hurt or rejection. Love is life and breath and touch. Love is helping someone live.

Help, love, forgive, and create beauty.

I serve with my art and creativity. That makes me most happy.

I have interviewed so many people who are put into nursing homes or hospices and are just waiting to die. It's a very lonely situation to just sit at a window and watch life go by.

Love. Help with no expectations. Destroy selfishness, self... At the end of our lives, I believe the soul will be asked, "What did you do for your fellow man?"

My friends. They help me so much. I would not be here without my friends.

My vulnerability is thinking that I am not worth people's time or space at times.

Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it.

I'm a little bit phobic about stains on my clothes, so I never travel without a little packet of organic stain remover.

My obsessions tend to cluster, so I often have families of poems in which only a couple of them make it to the book. It can be satisfying to banish poems to my "crappy poems" file.

An empty day, though clear and bright, Is just as dark as any night.

I think it would be very difficult to play somebody if they didn't think they had any virtues or redeeming characteristics.

Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions.

The truth is not beautiful - it stands on cloven hooves - it is covered in coagulated blood - but it is the truth.

It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.

Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.

Luckily for his audiences, Bennett doesn't tire of singing I Left My Heart. ... that song made me a world citizen. And when I do it, it always feels like the first time.