As soon as you recognize that you are able to control your thoughts, happiness will come within your reach.

The happy person often walks, unshaken, along the path that a thousand unhappy people insist is wrong.

Friendship is a tree to take shelter from the storm, to find shade from the blazing sun, to climb its bratches to get a better view, and to swing from when we're happy.

Some people say there are plenty of fish in the sea - until you find love - then there is only one.

Sometimes the most exciting journey you can make is through your own imagination.

Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance!

A word spoken in loving kindness is worth far more than any gift.

Don't rely on others to show you the way. Carry your own map.

There is no greater thing two friends can do for each other than simply to be each other's friends.

One cannot live a creative life without first letting go of the fear of being wrong.

Listen to what children have to say-their windows to the soul are unclouded.

I could smack her, punch her in the face, but then I see what she can't hide from me. I've seen it before-the desperation, the agony, the need to find a reason to go on, and the inability to find it.

... What of this "despair?" I know it all too well... because up until now... I've climbed up, kicked it in it's teeth, and surpassed it... over and over again just to make it to this very moment!

Poetry is an act of love. Without love life is impossible. Without poetry love has no exuberance.

If I'm all alone, then the standard for sanity is up to me entirely.

The real love for somebody comes from getting to know them very well.

The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.

I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.

I'm not sure we're presenting ourselves as real role models. I don't think literature has ever been a real place for role models.

It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.