I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

Find a need and fill it.

Like the trees, we are visitors, guests of the earth.

Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.

Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.

I have become convinced that if God stands a child before you, for even just a minute, it is a divine appointment.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

And in the end, she left a scarand I knew that washow she wanted tobe remembered.She wanted to leaveher mark in theworldwithout gettingher heart tooattached to it.

Writing is an adventure. There is no way to know where it will take you, and what you will find. You could find success. You could find fans. Or, best of all, you could find yourself.

Smiling and Expressions of Emotion. A genuine smile is inviting, contagious, and encouraging. People do read a book by its cover and your expressions provide a glimpse for what they’ll find inside.

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.

My back hurts. My legs ache. I'm only four!

Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.

It is sometimes easier to form a party than to attain by degrees the head of a party already formed.

Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions.

Gratitude is the intention to count-your-blessings every day, every minute, while avoiding, whenever possible, the belief that you need or deserve different circumstances.