I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny

Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem!

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.

Love is an incredible thing but we don't know love like we should. Unconditional love we don't know it because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them.

I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

To me that's a reflection of love, when someone can see you enjoying yourself, and want to participate, or want to encourage, or want to help you to do something that you enjoy.

You can walk in the light by faith.

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.

I'm not a singer, and I'm not a brilliant dancer.

In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services.

[it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front door.

Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter.

As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.

Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.

It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.