Just follow the day and reach for the sun!

You can't blend in when you were born to stand out.

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.

Whenever there is a conflict between being right and being kind, if possible, choose being kind.

I wish everyday could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks.

We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness.

I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.

My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.

There are always going to be jerks in the world . . . [but] there are more good people on this earth than bad people, and the good people watch out for each other and take care of each other.

One mistake does not define you.

Kinder than is necessary. Because it's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.

Like as a young child may not bring forth the things that belong to the aged, even so have I disposed the world which I created.

The saying of Vatican II is above all, 'Conscience is supreme.'

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.

Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took an evening to compose their thoughts, maybe the next evening as well.

Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.

The thing I have to keep in mind and I try to keep in mind about myself, about anyone, is you do the best you can do at the time.

Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don't really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?

I'm an old-fashioned girl. And I love gospel. I like things that lift me up, inspire me.