some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

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.

Ability, commitment, effort. Those are the three things required to succeed. If you have them, success will happen as sure as the sun will rise.You just have to give it time

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaTruthful man:He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy.

I am the scourge of God

Now is now, and I live everything one day at a time. The fact that I'm still on the planet and able to still make music is such a miracle.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent.

That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each.

The PSTN is like a well-manicured neighborhood, while the internet is like a crime-ridden slum,

As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.

There are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah.