Either a mother and daughter know each other very well or they are strangers.

If you only do what you like, who's going to do what you don't like?

Life is sometimes amazingly fragile, but some lives are frighteningly strong.

We may be the protagonists of tragedy, but we are also the heroes of our most beautiful and thrilling experiences.

How can you live without trusting people? There are more people who are good than people who are bad!

How far back does one's memory of someone go?

I had no way of knowing where it began or where it ended. Only that it flowed without restraint.

As the sun shines I will make hayTo keep failure at bayFor there remaineth a payFor my honest toil each day.

American troops and American taxpayers are shouldering a huge burden with no end in sight because Mr. Bush took us to war on false premises and with no plan to win the peace.

Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

I think I have a lot of crazy layers.

Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.

I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self.

I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me.

Instead of exposures to toxic materials and mechanical dangers, we are discovering the toxicity of social circumstances and patterns of social organization.

It's nearly every country's tactic to keep their greatest competitors a secret.

You must cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes; cease from seeing faults and see virtues.