When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

Used to keep my thinking in a box, I realized it was confining Broke it down decided I was more than the limits others placed on me~bns

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings.

If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.

Mass democracy guarantees stupidity. Masses of people, even if they're individually intelligent, can only act stupidly.

We learn from tragedy. Slowly.

Surviving and believing in tomorrow is just a habit I can't break.

It is a feeble compassion that pulls up short where self-interest begins.

I had my one guest star on The Flash, and that became several guest stars, and then they mentioned this new show.