Can I give them what they think they're going to get from me? That's always the big question.

Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.

Use your knowledge, and your heart, to stand up for those who can't stand, speak for those who can't speak, be a beacon of light for those whose lives have become dark.

Leave every place you go, everything you touch, a little better for your having been there.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.

Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.

Hopefully, I brought people a certain joy. That will be a wonderful legacy.

The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.

It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.

One difference between the Bible and the Constitution is that we can still talk to the author of the Bible to discover original intent.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.

Never before has the world been so desperately asking for answers to crucial questions, and never before has the world been so frantically committed to the idea that no answers are possible.

Go through the things that life gives you to go through, happily. You have to loosen the grip of time, gradually.

I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.

Excellent. They were flammable.

Poetry is devil's wine.

When faith lays hold, impossibilities must yield.