The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints.
No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.
A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life
Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.
I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
I am rooted, but I flow.
Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.
At the end of the day, everyone knows what it is to be loved and to aspire to love someone, to want to be loved, the loss of love, or having their love be opposed, whether it is family, friends or politically.
In rallying every curve, every hill may be different than you thought. That makes it interesting.
My dog of 17 years just died. Oh you're kidding?. . . Noooo. . . as funny as that is, I'm not
This notion that it is up to each person to innovation in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.