Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity and intelligence, spell-binding in its terrible beauty.

They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns out, when courage strikes, it almost always begets more courage.

Memory is a slippery thing. When something terrible happens to you, like the loss of someone you love...memory can turn into a soft blanket that hides you from the loss.

Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for in it lies a whole mixture of gratitude and longing, the twin ingredients of every prayer.

Resounding…with wit, courage, and compassion. Skinny will speak to everyone who has ever felt invisible or unlovable.

Nosotros somos paisanos. We are fellow countrymen. We come from the same soil.

Humans are designed to be with other humans, even those with mixed blood. They need each other's laughter. They require each other's sorrows.

An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.

I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.

The snow is falling on the deserted field of my life, and my hopes, which roam far, are afraid of becoming frozen or lost.

Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been applied, but it also colours the surrounding space with the complementary.

And my little sister died when she was 16.

I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification

I truly believe that music is the most powerful thing we have.

Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.

Its best to live as if it were the first and last day of my life.

Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.

The fact that you are not sure means that it is possible that there is another way someday.