The old story is true:Women have to be less emotional than men.

Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

Memory changes as a person matures.

The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake.

Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.

Anytime you've played in a place and you get a win against your old team, it feels good.

You go to other countries and you look at industries they have, and you say, let me see your regulations, and they're a fraction, just a tiny fraction of what we have.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.

When societies are out of harmony, problems develop within the society - collective problems. Their purpose is to push the whole society toward harmony.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you simply given Him a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience?