Life is to short to be little.

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

It sounded like a very loud vacuum cleaner behind us.

There is a growing evidence that arts education improves student learning and thereby produces better citizens

If you're born once, you die twice; but if you're born twice, you die once.

Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family back-ground; they are measured by the size of their thinking.

Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements.

Those who believe they can move mountains, do!

The only whole heart is a broken one because it lets the light in.

The thought "It's impossible" sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove you're right.

People do more for you when you make them feel important.

What if our loneliness is the result not simply of needing a partner but of needing people? We are made in the image of a relational God

I don't believe on them…but I am positive they exist.

A poet is a feeling, sentient being, not a word machine.

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

I love Toronto. I love it. I love Toronto. I love Canada. I can't wait to get back. Can't wait to have some Timbits.

Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.

You learn to read in kindergarten or first grade, and suddenly there's this other world that isn't your family or your school or your friends. It's something else.

she's the only thing that's made my life worth living and if that's all I get, a few months with her- a few days, it's more than I've ever hoped for (Luke)

I'd rather die than let somebody get the better of me.