Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.

As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.

Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.

When you learn to love yourself, you will no longer tolerate mistreatment of any kind. Not from him. Not from her. And not from YOU.

Nobody's sweetheart is ugly.

Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.

I'd love to have a child. Either one or 40. I love kids.

Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.

A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.

People have a lot less leniency for some reason for women straying from a relationship than they do for men.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.