But all the magic I have known I've had to make myself.

I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you good with bad habits? Or are you bad with good habits?

When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?

Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view.

There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.

Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.

What did the carrot say to the wheat? Lettuce rest, I'm feeling beet.

And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.

I can be someone's and still be my own.

Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain't been there before.

America has a unique type of poverty that looks like wealth.

Dying was misery. Death was that period at the end of the sentence.

As the crackling of thorns under a pot so is the laughter of a fool.

Nilekani's technocratic obsession with gathering data is consistent with that of Bill Gates, as though lack of information is what is causing world hunger.

My absolute favorite kind of people in the world are people that are passionate about something.

Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

He knew he was Joe DiMaggio, and he knew what that meant to the country.

There is no need to drag yourself through life, let go of the struggle & give yourself the time & love to find balance.

They are in a dilemma, they are in trouble now. Hate them and strike them.

One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.