may came home with a smooth round stoneas small as a world and as large as alone.

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 mind and the breath are the king and queen of human consciousness".

One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a computer microchip, can actually travel ahead in time and shave beard hairs that don't even exist yet

I once had a man break up with me. He said I was using him because right after making love I would weigh myself.

For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.

Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.

If you are talented, don't sit in the darkness, light a candle so that others can see you.

Fashion is merely a saying: I belong to your world. I'm wearing the same uniform as your army, so don't shoot.

The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer.

I'm such a tease And you're such a flirt... Routines and schedules Drug and kill you Kill you.

Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored.' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made.