The only thing to do with one's old sorrows is to tuck them up neatly in their shroud and turn one's face away from their grave towards what is coming next.

There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

This is why I forgive, but I don't forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn't mean anything anymore.

I don't listen to so much music now. I did when I was younger. Music is so much part of my work. I like peace and quiet now when I go home.

It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious

The pattern often has been entrenched since childhood... [abusive people] don't think that there is anything wrong with them because that is the way they were brought up in their family.

One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives.

There's a complete difference between training for a specific event and goal and just training.

When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over.

Mr. President, you’re entitled as a president to your own airplane, and to your own house, but not to your own facts.

Passion is power, And, kindly tempered, saves. All things declare Struggle hath deeper peace than sleep can bring.