Here I am where I ought to be.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.

And so silence and ...darkness hold happiness and joy?" he said softly."Assuredly, " she said, "provided one listens to the silence and gazes deeply into the darkness. Everything is there. Everything.

One of the greatest lies ever told to women is that it is only when they make up that they become beautiful

How we remember what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

Evolutionary circles are one of the key social forms in which people are connecting and can connect to make a difference throughout the world.

With a whirl of thought oppressed I sink from reverie to rest. An horrid vision seized my head, I saw the graves give up their dead.

Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.

If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality.

Now Im back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

Wal-Mart has done more for poor people then any ten liberals, at least nine of whom are almost guaranteed to hate Wal-Mart.