The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.

Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

In the space of his years, my body had taken its full shape and my heart had grown in wisdom, for I understood what it was to be a mother.

The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.

You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it’s how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger.

I might do a fitness video. Actually, more of a fatness video.

Men die but an idea does not.

To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes.

Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

It is just as important to move on in the wake of stunning success as in the wake of disaster.

It's not the troubles we run into, it's what we do about them which determines their net effect upon our lives ... by the very act of trying, our spirit is making progress.

We live in an age where technology is so powerful that we can make change without even leaving our computers or cell phones.

Your humans slaughter each other because of the color of your skin, or your faith or your plitics -- or for no reason at all -- too many of you hate as easily as you draw breath. - Magneto