"All life's a risk, that's what makes it interesting."

“When people wear our Bolivian knits and see who knitted them, they are excited because they know they are supporting this women's cause in Bolivia. And it shows you that we are all connected. It's not a machine making your clothes in a black hole somewhere. There is a human being behind it, and a community there.”

“When we give children advice or instant solutions, we deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.”

Source : Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish, Joanna Faber (2012). “How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

“I never did anything for free. Other than dancing in clubs. I give that away for nothing.”

“I believe that, seven generations beyond us, those who look back on our time will find that it was the cry of the trees that helped to restart the dreaming and foster the understanding that we must dream not only for ourselves but also for our communities and for all that shares life with us in our fragile bubble of air.”

Source : Robert Moss (2011). “Active Dreaming: Journeying Beyond Self-Limitation to a Life of Wild Freedom”, p.192, New World Library

“Different people are afforded different opportunities. I've been given some awesome opportunities, and I feel that I've always knocked them out of the park. But I've always been scaled back after that.”

“When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible”

“Writing when you are already very old means you have lived through the endings of so many things, you are more aware of the shape life takes. You begin to know Death, you've been close to it. But youth can barely imagine the end of this journey.”

“For me, this nomination was as if all of a sudden the crucifix began to wear a yellow star.”