I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.

To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before.

You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.

I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.

When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.