Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have.

Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.

A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.

Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path , All they do is trip you up

Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.

Each day has a color, a smell.

That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.

There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!

The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.

I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!

Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment?

Communist until you get rich. Feminist until you get married. Atheist until the airplane starts falling.

You could have kept on driving and never looked back. No one's ever had to stop for me. Or even hear me. Anyway, you did, and now I'm afraid the time for choice is behind us both.

You don't want someone who can't tell the difference between having a different opinion and dismissing your opinion.

Ours is a bad, bad world, but does that mean nothing's good? Does it mean we have run out of things for which to be grateful? No, no, a thousand times, no!

Some may want to shout on the street, but we should tolerate those who hide in their rooms and use literature to voice their opinions.

I've already developed trust in my teammates -as a player and as a person.

I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities.

My town hall meetings are with friends and neighbors, fellow Americans. We engage.

I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.