Sometimes we must leave our true homes for something greater to come.

True friends are always near, the Goddess said. Beneath the eyelids on a stormy night, around the bend in a wicked dream, hearkening to the future by the chimes of their companion’s call.

Close your eyes, and lo, they are opened! But never shall they close again.

Eldora smiled up at Paulo cunningly, her dark eyes twinkling. “You are old, Father.”“Not as old as I shall be, before I have finished with the universe.

There is a crack in everything.That's how the light gets in.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.

There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another.

If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they won't go in there. That's why I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing.

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.

I am just really focused in on what I love doing, but I would be a moron to not take some of my natural talent - I'm not saying I'm that talented, but I have enough acting and writing talent to go.

To drink is to warm the heart; without dispelling reason, it gives reason to life.

I tell my story, not because it is unique, but because it is not. It is the story of many girls.

The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.