Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.

I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.

Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

The world was hers for the reading.

There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky.

In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.

It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch.

People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life...And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.

If you want something new, then come up with a new idea and take action.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

We limit ourselves and God who wants to work through us

life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough

In terms of being a famous person, it hasn't changed anything. It's not important for me.

As far as hip-hop is concerned, I'm no expert and rarely think consciously about how I "represent" hip-hop.

They take the greats from the past and compare us. I wonder if they'd ever survive in this era. In a time where it's recreation, to pull all your skeletons out the closet like Halloween decorations.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

The degradation of our environment is undeniably a direct result of our lack of regard, lack of accountability, and lack of responsibility.

We are patriots in my family, we are believers in America, we're believers in democracy.