If you were going to compete successfully in a white man's world, you had to learn to play the white man's game. It was not enough that an Indian be as good as; an Indian had to be better than.

If Irish or Italian culture dies in America it really isn't that big a deal. They will still exist in Italy and Ireland. Not so with us. There is no other place. North America is our old country.

She was not able to return to the beginning, of course, and remake her life more to her liking, but now she was free to go on with the life she did have.

Fly with wings of love.

Of all the people in the world who could've won the seat next to mine at that playoff game... it was you, Gemma. You. The one person on the planet who might just understand me.

You need not cry very loud he is nearer to us than we think.

I always loved Alan Menken songs and wanted my first album to be a tribute to him and his work. I always loved his music.

They needed to grieve alone was what Tibby's dad said. Lena wondered if really there was any choice in that. Everyone grieved alone.

You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.

Don't lose who you are in the blur of the stars Seeing is deceiving, dreaming is believing

The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.

The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes. The only adventure that is doomed from the start is the one we do not attempt.

I still dream about everything I achieved. I dream about my career, dream about playing baseball, meeting so many people, traveling so much.