I have often been downcast, but never in despair.

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Whoever is happy will make others happy.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

The world moves fast, and so do the bees. Can we find the stillness to see them?

There is no dark, darker than the distorted great light.

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.

Philanthropy is the market for love. It is the market for all those people for whom there is no other market coming.

If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.

Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel for a person who was my husband.

My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It's quiet.

[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.