When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

The revelation that personal truth can be the foundation of comedy, that outrageousness can be cleansing and healthy…

Everybody wants a miracle

The strength to move forward when others stop, to keep going when others turn back, is the key to unlocking your greatest potential.

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.

I don't think I ever understood Hollywood.

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.

The only difference is that religion is much better organized and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.

I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren't cut out to do.

You just stay the course, and do what it is that you do, and grow while you're doing it. Eventually it will either come full circle, or at least you'll go to bed at night happy.