Love is no conditions. Love is given, despite hurt or rejection. Love is life and breath and touch. Love is helping someone live.

It is the youngest in the family who tends to the elders to learn about the sacredness of life and the beauty of death.

Help, love, forgive, and create beauty.

I serve with my art and creativity. That makes me most happy.

I have interviewed so many people who are put into nursing homes or hospices and are just waiting to die. It's a very lonely situation to just sit at a window and watch life go by.

Love. Help with no expectations. Destroy selfishness, self... At the end of our lives, I believe the soul will be asked, "What did you do for your fellow man?"

My friends. They help me so much. I would not be here without my friends.

My vulnerability is thinking that I am not worth people's time or space at times.

Whoever said kindness should be earned is wrong. A kick in the shins is earned - kindness should be a given.

Call me a sinner, Mock me maliciously: I was your insomnia, I was your grief.

So slowly the hot elephant hearts grow full of desire, and the great beasts mate in secret at last, hiding their fire.

Sometimes you have to listen to other people, and see what the audiences want. That's what entertaining is about.

Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years.

And she finds it difficult to believe—that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy.

I don't pick my roles by genre; that's kind of silly.

Virtue is about wanting right and good things, not about being particularly good at thinking.

I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania.

African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do.