Whatever we perceive as good in the world has always endured, and it always will.

Because there is no nation so powerful it cannot be wounded, nor a people so small they cannot offer mighty comfort.

There are constant cycles in history. There is loss, but it is always followed by regeneration. The tales of our elders who remember such cycles are very important to us now.

I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesnt hurt, either.

If one mouse is a spark...then ten thousand are a conflagration.

I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

We all have an artistic side that we have to express if we want to live a life that feels whole.

My work is my play. I found a way to make my passion to be the same as how I make a living.

The essence of true friendship, in my view, is to make allowances for one another's little lapses.

A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.

Rae Chorze-Fwaz has preserved and passed on their secret meditation techniques in oral tradition from the time of Atlantis until he present day.

Litle stickes kindle the fire; great ones put it out.

It seems like all the sitcoms on now, the families are kind of dysfunctional.

Mirabelle is not affected by a man’s failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place.

You have to be willing to be happy. Despite the mess of your life-just accept what's happened, throw away your ideals, and create a new map of happiness to follow.

Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body.