I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.

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.

Our destiny becomes the accumulation of the choices that we make; the choices of which paths we took in life.

You create your future in the Present, use your Now well, for a better Tomorrow!

The path of light is quest for knowledge.

Hate people on an individual basis only - you must actually get to know someone at least slightly before you can properly hate him or her.

If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.

Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can't believe. What you see and believe in is very much what I'm interested in.

I'd like to apologise to the British people for the state our politics is in.

Just because he was pretty didn't mean he couldn't be improved by a smack upside the head with a piece of earnest hickory

You can't change in your own power. If you feel overwhelmed by something bigger than you, let the one who is bigger than all things be the power you need in your weakness.

I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to