It's quite sad that so many children go through life unsure whether their parents love them or not.

The future begins today.

You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.

Helping people and putting smiles on their faces is a great, great thing. God only knows why more people don't do it more often.

Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people.

The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly justified.

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.

Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions.

Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.

I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to.

The distance of a voice, is only a short time away from touch.

Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.

The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.

Love is about finding courage inside of you that you didn’t even know was there.

I am not closed off to anything right now. That is what I was saying about not having any more walls up. I don't want to deprive myself of any bit of life.

When you love someone, when you care for someone, you have to do it through the good and the bad. Not just when you're happy and it's easy.

Years on end, and swords on end - where will it end, if our ears unbend - what shall I spend on a wrinkled friend in a pair of tights like a bunch of lights?

It's important to be true to yourself and your vision.

My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.

I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.