may came home with a smooth round stone as 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.

it is, just a door.if you never knock, it may, never open.

Whatever time is giving us, it will take everything back!

If you want something different out of life, you have to be prepared to try something new.

It's better to say goodbye, to move on, to end the lie.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.

China will continue to support the efforts of the Palestinian people to regain their legitimate rights, including the establishment of an independent state.

Lu-cy...you have some s'plainin' to do. ~Gem

Thus far, everything I've made has come out of my really feeling it, out of the fire of my life.