The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met.

I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.

And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.