I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

What kind of good deeds? Like Girl Scouts? Because I got kicked out of Brownies and they won't give me another chance to keep my clothes on at camp.

And I understood that I ought not ask for a prayer language until I could ask without making it the test of my entire faith.

Well, put it this way--I don't want to ever imagine a moment without you next to me ever again.

Gnaw your own bone gnaw at it bury it unearth it gnaw it still.

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

In the southern half of the country perhaps no crop has larger possibilities for quick increase of production of food for both men and animals than the sweet potato.

If you're lucky enough to have captured maybe two hundred memorable pictures, you still haven't captured that much experience, have you?

Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.

If Trump is going to govern in a fascist way, then we need to make America ungovernable.