Life is a lease and God is the landlord.

A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty.

I think the only answer is to live life to the fullest while you can and collect memories like fools collect money. Because in the end, that's all you have - happy memories.

That's what dessert means to me: a dollop of sweet love in an otherwise cold world.

He's definitely one of those men you love before you get to know.

The power of women united, I am again reminded, is an invincible thing.

Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire. The heart that sighs does not have what it desires.

We may not get what we want, when we want. But with a bit of perseverance and a lot of patience, we can get what we need.

Love doesn't go anywhere when you die, you know. The person passes on, the body withers, but love, it survives.

Without risk, we are automatons going through our days with no purpose or meaning. We are safer, perhaps, but we are also, ironically, closer to death.

Risk is the universe's way of pushing us to become more than what we are. Risk is faith at the edge. Risk is the pulsating nature of life.

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

An artist is a man who tries to express the inexpressible.

If I am an angel, paint me with black wings.

When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.

There is a great life-giving, warming power called Love, which exists in human hearts dumb and unseen, but which has no real life, no warming power, till set free by expression.

Anything that can happen, will happen.

My job is to say, 'This is how I see the world. Do you agree?'

You have to have been in love to write poetry.

Shake and shake the catsup bottle none will come and then a lot'll.

If I splurge on anything, it's cologne. I love smelling good.