The family I grew up in had three generations of widows.

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get.

For me, the more I understand the story of others, the greater I am able to learn and help other people.

Sometimes the mere connection we make with each other can change people's lives. It doesn't have to be something big. The mere fact that you're interested in them makes them happy.

I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.

It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over ten years.

I tried to write poems in rhyme. I tried writing songs. Sometimes I jotted down a thought. I would keep a log of spontaneous thoughts.

I read a lot when I was in school in the United States, and even though writing in English is very difficult for me, I wrote in journals.

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.

You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art].

This is my first collaboration [with Mary Hamill] so I'm going to learn how it's going to work.

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

A censure would put an indelible scar on the president's place in history, .. Monica Lewinsky is not Watergate. Let he who has no sin in this chamber cast the first stone.

If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.

What you are doesn't matter. Because what you are isn't going to change who you are.

There is no way of learning of God except through the adventure of our own heart.

It wasn't through choice that I became a mum at 36. I wanted to be a young mum but things never worked out for me.

Sometimes miracles happen. We have to be confident. We're convinced we can do something really exceptional.

I have never used steroids. Period.

The three eldest children of Necessity: God, the World and love.

Take characters that Nicholson or De Niro play: they're not always tough