They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Unfortunately, our minds are our greatest assets, and our biggest flaws.

Some people like to hear and not see, so we have the radio. There are so many different ways that we can get and participate in the arts.

It is a great joy to believe that Jesus has been tempted in all points just as we are.

Art shouldn't be only the aesthetics we hang on the wall, but a dynamic to shape the society.

Particular lies may speak a general truth.

We intend to make this world the most beautiful, glorious planet that any human being can imagine and, really, beyond anything any human being can imagine.

It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet.

If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.

If you can't be the best than be different

I am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.