You say I resemble a flower

We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.

To work for the sheer joy of it, to wake up and be really excited on a Monday, to love what you do so much that the idea of a long vacation looks boring - that's living.

What I took out of them was that character was measured by facing up to difficult situations and that a hero was a man who would not break even under the most trying circumstances.

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

We don't want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.

The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.

Perseverance and perspective until victory.

In one's youth, one has tremendous access to one's feelings. And as one gets older, some of those feelings kind of drift away. But so much more happens to you. There's more at stake in life.

Souls bound together can't be forever torn apart by distance and neither by death.

If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.