What a mother wants is to hold her babies when they’re small and to be held by them once they’ve grown tall. It’s empty arms a mother dreads.

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.

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

This woman could make a saint sin.

This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it. It doesn't know where to find it.

As an independent, my views, in fact, are a little bit different than many of my Democratic colleagues.

Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.

Writing the book automatically made me accept myself and love myself more.

Character demonstrates itself in trifles.

You can see love in war and you can also see war in love!

I was born in Georgia. That's where my grandparents-and all my people-are from. But my family traveled a great deal because my dad was in the army as a helicopter pilot.

Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.