We're all who we are endlessly.

Take my hand and grow young with me. Don't rush. Don't sleep. Be a beginner. Light the candles. Keep the fire. Dare to love someone. Tell yourself the truth. Stay inside the rapture.

How strange it is, sometimes, which conversations or events stays with us while so much else melts as fast as April snow.

Sicily could only be an island, less by the caprice of nature than by her own insolence. As though she might have quit Italy had she not already been born separate from it.

most crimes are connected to hunger. One hunger or another.

Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.

We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling about it. We were children loving our children. And that's who we are still.

There isn't an agony in the world more powerful than tenderness

We violate the innocence of things in the name of rationality so we can wander about, uninterrupted, in our search for passion and sentiment.

You CAN have your cake and eat it too. Just don't start choking.

I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child.

In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.

To see things simply is the hardest thing in the world.

Remember who you are. It's really okay to be who you are.

Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance

The divine love of God turns ordinary acts into extraordinary service.

I'm a little more shy and not comfortable dancing in front of a large crowd.

Dally was so real he scared me.

True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.