Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.

Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.

No art ever came out of not risking your neck.

it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination.

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.

We are the breakers of our own hearts

People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

The sweet simplicity of the three percents.

Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.

I think the company's [HP's] success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences of that.

Emotional Freedom is a must-read for anyone who's tired of feeling frustrated, lonely, or stopped by fear.

We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that

My heart is bursting at the thought of Al-Mahdi coming to set up a universal government of peace.

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

Soccer and sports are entertainment ... You can't call Beethoven's 9th Symphony or a work of Shakespeare 'entertainment.' It's not 'entertainment.' It's culture.

Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other who God is.