Poeta não é somente o que escreve. É aquele que sente a poesia, se extasia sensível ao achado de uma rima à autenticidade de um verso.

Desistir? Eu já pensei seriamente nisso, mas nunca me levei realmente a sério. É que tem mais chão nos meus olhos do que cansaço nas minhas pernas, mais esperança nos meus passos do que tristeza nos meus ombros, mais estrada no meu coração do que medo na minha cabeça.

Há muros que só a paciência derruba. E há pontes que só o carinho constrói.

A estrada da vida pode ser longa e áspera. Faça-a mais longa e suave. Caminhando e cantando com as mãos cheias de sementes...

O que vale na vida não é o ponto de partida e sim a caminhada. Caminhando e semeando, no fim terás o que colher.

Fechei os olhos e pedi um favor ao vento: Leve tudo que for desnecessário. Ando cansada de bagagens pesadas. Daqui para frente levo apenas o que couber no bolso e no coração.

Feliz aquele que transfere o que sabe e aprende o que ensina.

Se a gente cresce com os golpes duros da vida, também podemos crescer com os toques suaves na alma.

Recria tua vida, sempre, sempre. Remove pedras e planta roseiras e faz doces. Recomeça.

Eu sou aquela mulher a quem o tempo muito ensinou. Ensinou a amar a vida. Não desistir da luta. Recomeçar na derrota. Renunciar a palavras e pensamentos negativos. Acreditar nos valores humanos. Ser otimista.

Mesmo quando tudo parece desabar, cabe a mim decidir entre rir ou chorar, ir ou ficar, desistir ou lutar; porque descobri, no caminho incerto da vida, que o mais importante é o decidir.

A verdadeira coragem é ir atrás de seu sonho mesmo quando todos dizem que ele é impossível.

Todos estamos matriculados na escola da vida, onde o mestre é o tempo.

Me esforço para ser melhor a cada dia. Pois bondade também se aprende.

Se temos de esperar, que seja para colher a semente boa que lançamos hoje no solo da vida. Se for para semear, então que seja para produzir milhões de sorrisos, de solidariedade e amizade.

O saber se aprende com mestres e livros. A Sabedoria, com o corriqueiro, com a vida e com os humildes.

Não podemos acrescentar dias a nossa vida, mas podemos acrescentar vida aos nossos dias.

Quis ser um dia, jardineira de um coração. Cavei, plantei. Na terra ingrata nada criei.

Melhor do que a criatura, fez o criador a criação. A criatura é limitada. O tempo, o espaço, normas e costumes. Erros e acertos. A criação é ilimitada. Excede o tempo e o meio. Projeta-se no Cosmos.

Não lamente o que podia ter e se perdeu por caminhos errados e nunca mais voltou.

Bem por isso mesmo diz o caboclo: a alegria vem das tripas, barriga cheia, coração alegre. O que é pura verdade.

Acredito nos jovens à procura de caminhos novos abrindo espaços largos na vida. Creio na superação das incertezas deste fim de século.

Da mesma forma aquela sentença: A quem te pedir um peixe, dá uma vara de pescar. Pensando bem, não só a vara de pescar, também a linhada, o anzol, a chumbada, a isca...

Não morre aquele que deixou na terra a melodia de seu cântico na música de seus versos.

You see, you learn from all your bad experiences, so they're really positive. It's all part of the cosmic knowing.

The fashion world tells me how much they love my work, but they don't hire me very often. Tom Ford did, and he hated it. Naturally, he wanted to Photoshop away the imperfections, which is perfectly understandable. They want their vision.

It was not just friendship that we are attached to each other, it was sisterhood that made that bonding between us, but now that love doesn't exist anymore as people changes with time- that's reality.

The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.

Many retail stores have consumer trackers that study how long your eyes linger on one product, whether you follow it through by touch, and things that you buy. You can redesign things on a shelf, all by tracking such information.

Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard.

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?

My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and once someone actually hired a screenwriter to adapt one of my books - but it all came to nothing, so I tried not to get too excited when a Hollywood suitor came calling for 'Admission,' my fourth novel.

My most vivid memory of my father centers on the day he left. It was warm, and my mother was especially short with Rhonda and me that afternoon, which I attributed to the heat. I was oblivious to the mounting hostilities in our basement apartment.

Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be carried on without constant yet at present necessary dislocation.

Certainty abolishes hope and robs us of renewal.

Le Cirque at first was one of those general French restaurants in town, which were cooking more or less the same food. At Le Cirque, I wanted to do something different while respecting the foundation of the restaurant. I did that through the menu.

Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.

My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Because dancing is way more fun than the treadmill, I downloaded the video of Beyonce's 'Single Ladies' and started to learn her dance. Let me tell you, if I ever did that dance in a club, I would still be a single lady! But what a workout!

To some people, the impossible is impossible. One fine day, they wake up in the morning knowing that they will never hold the moon in their hands, and with the certainty, perfect peace descends on them.

You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important.

Being 36 years old changes you a lot, and so does eight years away from career, fame, needing attention, needing to be loved by strangers on some level. I was loving anonymity. I was loving the fact that I could meet a girl who didn't know who I was. I enjoyed it very much, I have to say.

I think if I could be a man in any time period, I would be a pirate. You know, go climbing in the rigging, sword fighting. I'd like to do that.

And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb.

Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy.