The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

The path of meditation and the path of our lives altogether ha to do with curiosity, inquisitiveness.

How many would protest if restaurants began serving puppy and kitten flesh instead of calves? Robins instead of hens? Squirrels instead of pigs?

We have a good team, and I think we'll have a good season this year.

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

The baskets start at $25 and] the sky's the limit, I've done baskets worth hundreds of dollars. At that price, they are putting in luxury items.

Reality television is a scripted hyper-life that employs writers, but won't allow them to call themselves writers or join the union.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

Do you remember stormy winter?Well button up your coat, one's comin' soon