The night glittered brilliantly then.

Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

What was important wasn't the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time.

I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.

The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.

Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.

Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.

No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider.

But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.

Over and over, we begin again.

It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.

As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.

No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work.

Sharing silence between us. Sometimes is all you can share.

Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.

Of those who start TaeKwonDo training, only about 5% stick with it until they achieve the Black Belt Rank. Then perhaps 80% of those who earn a Black stop there.

I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.

Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.

Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California condor.