They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

Libraries are the pride of the city.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.

Strive to continuously embrace bigger and better blessings by refusing to allow your thoughts and beliefs to stand against you and your true destiny on earth.

A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

A mad man sees what he sees.

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear.

Breakfast Club was great because we had a real rehearsal, and we shot primarily in sequence.

The passion for money is never fickle.

Anyone can drink beer, but it takes intelligence to enjoy beer.

WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos of human co-existence