Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.

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.

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.

But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.

As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway.

I think people need to know what they're eating. That's why I support "country of origin" labeling. That's why I support labeling of GMO's.

Everything family does is reflection on the other people.

With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic

My basics are black, white, or neutral, and I'll wear a ton of jewelry or carry a brightly colored bag.

God's Word is not meant just to inform you, but to transform you.

Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity.