Safety is the most basic task of all. Without sense of safety, no growth can take place. Without safety, all energy goes to defense

Perhaps the greatest magic of the human spirit is the ability to laugh, at ourselves, at each other, and at our sometimes hopeless situation. Laughter normalized our lives

Yeah, it's hard. It's really, really hard. But 'hard' is not 'impossible'.

It's a funny place, this world. Hate has rights. Love has none.

My heart do be so big, " she whispered. "It be so big and I do reckon I be about the happiest kid for it.

Peter, you're not crazy, " William said. "Nobody's really crazy. That's just a word. Isn't it, Torey? Just a word. And nobody's a word.

Beauty may be only skin deep but the judgments founded on it ten to go a lot deeper, whether we wished they would or not.

It is easy to smile in the face of a challenge, when we believe in ourselves that we won't back down.

I don't care for moon to be on my side, I already have his Master.

If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.

I'm not saying find someone and ask them if you can mow their grass for ten dollars. I'm saying find weeds that need pulling and pull them.

Defeat is worse than death because you live with defeat.

I just like working with people that I respect and think are really funny.

My tears is tatted, my rag in my pocket / Im just looking for love, I know somebody got it

Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.

I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.

Nature I'll court in her sequester'd haunts, By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell; Where the pois'd lark his evening ditty chants, And health, and peace, and contemplation dwell.