Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.

Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren't tears. She wasn't crying. They were just the memories, leaking out.

I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.

Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!

The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if it did exists, but doesn’t now, then where did it go ?

There are many answers, none of them right, but some of them most definitely wrong.

But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It's already then.

You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed.

The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.

Everything in the universe is constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives.

When I start writing novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry, rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do that, you can't write good characters.

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

A woman with a strong sense of personal power, is self confident enough to accurately identify her strengths as well as her blind spots, which she is continually working to improve.

On behalf of the American people, just let me say that we are proud to count Greece as one of our closest allies and one of our greatest friends.

There is only one true purpose in life: to wake up from the delusion that you are separate from everything else.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

I don't really like using guns too much, you know, even for sport.

Once love found you it clung, no matter how much you tried to shake it off.

A song fluttered down in the form of a dove, And it bore me a message, the one word-Love!

Do yourself what you wish others to do.

You never know what your opportunities are going to be.