Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion.

Every real story is a never ending story.

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.

You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.

There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.

Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of it?

My will can control anything that’s empty.

A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.

There were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all were essentially one and the same, namely, the joy of being able to love.

Wishes cannot be summoned up or kept away at will. They come from deeper within us than good or bad intentions. And they spring up unannounced.

Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

Love requires trust, and trust requires honesty that is only got through love.

True humility means giving joy to others.

Donna fight the darkness, nobody. Embrace it.

Spiders evidently as surprised by the weather as the rest of us: their webs were still everywhere - little silken laundry lines with perfect snowflakes hung out in rows to dry.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.

Music was our way of remembering our inner selves, our values.

You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

In a town church the right place for the admission of light.

We're all connected. Helping another woman is helping yourself, your mother, your sister, your children.