may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living

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.

Part of American leadership is making sure that we're doing nation building here at home. That will help us maintain the kind of American leadership that we need.

I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you.

An album doesn't mean as much to a lot of people now, compared to just songs.

I just show up to the yard, work hard, and play as hard as I can.

a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.

You'd be surprised to know how many heartaches, how many bitter disappointments, how many disasters that seem final when they come, we learn to survive and in time even to forget.

Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.

Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.

I'm a trained martial artist. My parents were both martial artists.

Do not give dalliance too much rein; the strongest oaths are straw to the fire in the blood.