Recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. Tomorrow comes more brightly.

Capture a shadow, dance with the wind, stand in a rainbow, begin at the end.

I appreciate the boldness of gratitude in the quiet, unspoken depths and its ability to buoy another by being articulated.

If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves.

Lean forward into your life... catch the best bits and the finest wind. Just tip your feathers in flight a wee bit and see how dramatically that small lean can change your life.

When we have a circle of friends, we have more fun. We get more done, we feel and are stronger, and we really do celebrate the power of our 'us.'

Gift the love of your life with undistracted, untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.

Take time to play! Ask for what you want. Laugh. Live loudly. Be avid. Learn a new thing. Be Yourself!

Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses; Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.

Manage the remarkable balance between acting from your heart and close to your gifts with completing the obligations that your labor and tasks require of you. Leverage opportunity AND seize joy.

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. Mary

There is a sort of mental treasonThat smothers dreams outside of reason

It’s entirely on our children to build their best futures. Not on us, parents. And we should be imprinting this message on our children’s brains from as early as possible.

Don't despise the little steps you know you can take every day. There are tiny miracles in each and every one of them.

The minute you get too big to mop a floor or wipe a counter, that's the exact minute you have life f**ked up.

[on Osama bin Laden] He is either alive and well or alive and not too well or not alive.

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

I create by feeling rather than by intellectualizing.

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.