God, eldest of Poets.

Love like you'll never be hurt.

Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.

Human potential, though not always apparent, is there waiting to be discovered and invited forth.

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt

A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.

No act of kindness is wasted.

Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away.

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

April, April Laugh thy girlish laughter; Then, the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears.

And though circuitous and obscureThe feet of Nemesis how sure!

This is what they mean by epiphanies. I am almost thinking in exclamation points.

Maupassant is a man of mitigating circumstances, the lawyer who can bring the jurors around by demonstrating that they too could have committed such a crime. We are all murderers.

I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.

In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it!

If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.

The oldest and most important currency is debt.

Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature.

The joy in motherhood comes in moments. There will be hard times and frustrating times, but amid the challenges there are shining moments of joy and satisfaction.

In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.

A good girl is supposed to be very quiet