Just because a person spends her time making a piece of something does not mean that she becomes that - a piece of something.

Chinese workers are not forced into factories because of our insatiable desire for iPods. They choose to leave their homes in order to earn money, to learn new skills, and to see the world.

The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time--maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right.

A person cannot grow up through happiness. Happiness makes a person shallow. It is only through suffering that we grow up, transform, and come to a better understanding of life.

Her action in defending Marcão meant one thing to him and something quite different to her

Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies…that which to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself.

Vodka goes well with a wintery perspective. Nothing else provokes such presentiments of falling snow except, for some, the communist seizure of the state.

You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.

More than anything, having adventures with my siblings and spending time with my family and my husband make me happy.

Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.

Nature is God's greatest evangelist.

O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.

Dreaming was only nice while it lasted.