We both know that pain comes for us all. It's almost a relief. Because if all of us are going to someday lose the people we love most, or be lost by them, then what is there to do but live?

My inheritance is grief and sunlight and the ability to choose which to hold on to.

It’s almost funny, in a tragic way, that the fiery thing at the center of my universe did die and that I, a girl whose name is synonymous with summer, am expected to live without it.

When you've been lost as I have, " he once said, "you get good at finding your way home.

Early to bed and early to rise may make a person 'healthy' but it may not make him ‘wealthy’ and ‘wise’! If anyone really wants to be wealthy and wise, he must read books and work intelligently!

Perhaps thought really is prayer.

The cruel irony of housework: people only notice when you don't do it.

My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.

It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.

We have no money. We have no possessions. Maybe that is why we value the things we do have ... loyalty and friendship.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

There is no future. There is only now, a continuous now. We have become so wrapped up in the past and the future that we don't see the continuous now. There is no future. It is an idea that you have.

Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.