Girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women.

Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.

A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.

Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path , All they do is trip you up

Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.

Each day has a color, a smell.

That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.

There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!

The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.

I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!

Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment?

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

If all you have is money, you are among the poorest people in the world.

But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.

'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.

I think in vitro is a miracle and it has given me my precious little baby boy.

I can't love you unless I give you up.

The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives.

Why somebody has a same-gender attraction... who can say? But what matters is the fact that we know we can control how we behave, and it is behavior which is important.

The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves

The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.