Being a mother is the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me in my life.

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

Fidel Castro

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Kahlil Gibran

What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give little armor against despair...Consider, Arren. To refuse death is to refuse life.

Ursula K. Le Guin

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is harder to find when everyone claims to own it.

L.M. Fields

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

Cornel West

Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

Leonard Cohen

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Mahatma Gandhi

You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.

Cassandra Clare

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

John Burroughs

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

Paulo Coelho

To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.

Melissa Gilbert