Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.