The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

And this is what she wants to do to people. Let them have their own lives, until she wants them. Give them the strength of giants, but not the power to control it.

One of the ways to discover our toughness and resiliency is to look back at where we come from. (from Amazon description)

As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.

change.

I think I look good out there. I'm strong powerful and artistic. But I have my doubts as much as anyone.

If you think shy, you act shy.

Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home.

This week Apple stores are holding free computer programming classes for children. Or as that's called in China, a job fair.

Maybe my records might make the next Ja Rule or Jay-Z want to rap.

My mom is part albino.