I’ve got a magic charm That I keep up my sleeve, I can walk the ocean floor And never have to breathe.

Nothing will work unless you do.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

Inspiration, Admiration - Motivation [I AM]- a very well defined characteristic of the SOUL.

I nodded again, but I knew I would not grow up to drive a bulldozer. It would be awful to be dirty all day like these men. I didn't say it, but at best I would keep one in the backyard, like a goat.

The attractive power of love is intensified proportional to the intensity of thoughts, perception of duration, and the perceived distance.

Two silent time zones had now merged to form the standard time of one man's fate

[Maisie]:...going out for luncheon with a gentleman is definitely not the same as going out to dine in the evening. [Billy]: You get more grub at dinner, for a start -

When you lose what you love remember to stay strong. Look out the window and remember life goes on.

The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped.

I loved The Weird (one of the stories in it inspired Blackalley in Discourse).

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.