Sometimes you have to cross the boundaries of Death in order to discover the meaning of Life.

In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear, shame, guilt and judgement - was finally possible.

Those who nurse secrets, nurse a chaotic world of amplified silence.

My hand-stitched wings itchto take flightto test the winds of changethat inevitably blow at the end of a cycle.

I have forsaken her for a place I will never belong, but will always remain under her spell, forever to be, a child of my motherland.

Survival depends on denial, and death comes swiftly to those who forsake it.

Death descended like a theatrical storm over the Drakensberg Mountains, stranding me while it ran its course.

There are those whose love awakens our own and those whose love undermines. As long as we are blind to this fact, true love will elude us.

NOTHING IS GREATER THAN ITS SOURCE

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another

Preach Christ or nothing: don't dispute or discuss except with your eye on the cross.

I'm a trained actress and I can do it, but I think that you have to prove yourself

There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself.

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

Cities with clean air gain an economic advantage, because where people want to live and work, businesses want to invest.

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

Culture is always the echo of economic realities; that's what Marx teaches. Feminism is a clear example of that.