The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be--

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

Ugly people kill people all the time. But when pretty people did, it got attention.

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.

God doesn't give people burdens they can't handle.

Why is everything always my decision?" I asked. Because you will not tolerate anything else." Oh, I remembered now. "Great", I whispered. - Anita to Jean-Claude

When it's too hard for them, it's just right for us.

Love puts all logic to sleep. Otherwise, we wouldn't risk it.

It's taken me a lot of years to peel away my own layers.

The green is so narrow that if you over-club, you've got an impossible bunker shot. If you're short, you're pretty much dead.