During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am.

But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.

When I dream, I am ageless.

The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth.

Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.

Only of one thing I am sure: when I dream I am always ageless.

I saw the lovely arch Of rainbow span the sky, The gold sun burning As the rain swept by.

there is something dangerous about mirrors. ... What dynamite we handle when we lift a mirror or bend towards one! I seldom do.

Little I ask And that little is not granted." There are few crumbs In this world any more.

To a life that seizes Upon content, Locality seems But accident.

At a touch, he explodes like a snapdragon into loud purrs.

Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.

I love true love, and I'm a woman who wants to be married for a lifetime. That traditional life is something that I want.

Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit.

We're not going to pierce everything that we have and paint our faces trying to get a different market. We'll grow with our audience. We're just going to keep doing what we do.

I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting - it has been found demanding, and not tried.

A closed mouth doesn't get fed.

There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.

Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out