The humanitarian is a treasure hunter seeking gems of remedy and appreciation.

Music is my enchanter, the seducer of my emotions, the fire and ice that moves me.

I survive on moments of make-believe happiness.

Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it.

Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds.

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power.

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.

Dreams become reality once the dreamer goes beyond imagining and acts them out.

I can and will improve the world.I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.I refuse to be unhappy.

Giddy is a grin and giggles and that glint of goofiness in your gaze.

Writing is talking to yourself-with the hope of being overheard.

Life is a sacred breath.

She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the breath.

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

The more merit, the less affection.

Concentrate on poverty and you will be poor.

I think, at the end of the day, if youre a good actor, then youre a good actor.

The harm done to Israel is damage done to the West. And delegitimizing Israel is a delegitimization of the West.

If you inspire one person each day, you’re day hasn't been a waste. It’s been a blessing.

If you listen to the traffic with a clear mind, without any concepts, it is not noisy, it is only what it is.