If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer.

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get.

For me, the more I understand the story of others, the greater I am able to learn and help other people.

Sometimes the mere connection we make with each other can change people's lives. It doesn't have to be something big. The mere fact that you're interested in them makes them happy.

I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.

It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over ten years.

I tried to write poems in rhyme. I tried writing songs. Sometimes I jotted down a thought. I would keep a log of spontaneous thoughts.

I read a lot when I was in school in the United States, and even though writing in English is very difficult for me, I wrote in journals.

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.

You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art].

This is my first collaboration [with Mary Hamill] so I'm going to learn how it's going to work.

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.

First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.

In the event you bungle elevating your sons or daughters, I do not imagine regardless of what else you are doing nicely issues very considerably.

Maybe that's because there are so few women lobbyists; if they're there, it's for something they strongly believe in, not just for financial gain.

This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

I can never forgive God for having invented the French

With too little judgement, we get trash. With too much judgement, we get blockage.

Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.

There really isn't a day when I wake up and DON'T have to be someplace.