The Sisters vanished entirely then, and Aunt Harriet was standing over Tessa, her face flushed with fever as it had been during the terrible illness that had killed her. She looked at Tessa with great sadness. "I tried," she said. "I tried to love yo...
The pattern glitters with cruelty. The blue beads are colored with fish blood, the reds with powdered heart. The beads collect in borders of mercy. The yellows are dyed with the ocher of silence. There is no telling which twin will fall asleep first,...
There is often talk of human rights, but it is also necessary to talk of the rights of humanity. Why should some people walk barefoot, so that others can travel in luxurious cars? Why should some live for thirty-five years, so that others can live fo...
I feel like, God expects me to be human. I feel like, God likes me just the way I am: broken and empty and bruised. I feel like, God doesn't look at me and wish that I were something else, because He likes me just this way. I feel like, God doesn't w...
My soul, if thou wouldst be enlarged into human sympathy, thou must be narrowed into limits of human suffering. Joseph's dungeon is the road to Joseph's throne. Thou canst not lift the iron load of thy brother if the iron hath not entered into thee. ...
America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.
Experiment or not, the government is always watching. - Felix
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
But perhaps a heart takes experience and time to harden.
Life gives us experiences, we are learners.
Well, that's an evil smile...
Iggy. This is not a democracy," I said,(...)"It's a Maxocracy.
Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience.
Everything you know gained from experience
Time doesn't age you; experience does.
Education. Experience. Or are they the same thing?
Science is the systematic classification of experience.
A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.
Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.
The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.
