one pierced moment whiter than the rest -turning from the tremendous lie of sleep i watch the roses of the day grow deep.

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.

I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.

Let thy sacred heart be thy holy home.

Don’t judge a tree by its size, but by its fruit.

I don't think leadership demands yes or no answers; I think leadership is providing the forum for making the right decision, which doesn't demand unanimity.

In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love.

I was a sloppy kid, wanted to be just wild.

Every sunset I witness inspires me with the desire to go to West as distant and as fair as that which the sun goes down. Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

The key to all motivation is desire, and the master key to creating desire is responsiveness to the needs, desires, and interests of the people you would lead.

A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.

I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever .. childhood wounds were left.