An inherent kindness exists in the process of aging ... we are allowed to move along gradually.

And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.

The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.

Life is never easy for those who dream.

Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.

There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.

I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about.

We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us.

The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.

And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies.

The courage to continue before the face of despair is the recognition in those eyes of darkness we find our own night vision. Women blessed with death-eyes are fearless.

Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.

The more you nurture a feeling of loving kindness, the happier and calmer you will be.

when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.

I used to love to make things - you couldn't drag me away for dinner because I was always writing a story or something.

I knew I was going bald when it was taking longer and longer to wash my face.

I don't think... one get a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there deep within you.

You have sole custody of your life. Who you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow. Embrace the possibility of transformation.

In fact it is essential that we strengthen efforts to learn from each other, and stop considering public health in the third world and in the U.S. as separate intellectual and practical endeavors.

If as a voter you think what we need is more Republicans in Washington to cut a deal with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, then I guess Donald Trump's your guy.