Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.

We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.

When you raise girls, you're raising children for strangers.

Not many women got to live out the daydream of women—to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself.

You're too young to decide to live forever.

Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been an outlaw knot-maker.

Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.