I came to realize we are held in the arms of God and are utterly completely safe - in life and in death

Well, it's simple to love someone, " she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

Love can open like a flower out of even the hardest places.

Great experiences are built on a foundation of bad experiences.

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

I tell everyone that I have 25,000 assistant coaches. If I want to know something, I just go to the grocery store.'

I'm not tired of the work... I'm tired in the work.

When I do it [writing] by myself, there's a lot more terror and uncertainty.

She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering, or the total absence of meaning in their lives.

Fascistic leaders are aggressively macho and chauvinistic. They are xenophobic about people who they portray as outsiders or some sort of threat to the nation or as weaklings they can denounce.