things which in my mind blossom will stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear capable of fragility and indecision

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.

... as a reminder that a white man could still kill him for nothing.

Just because you don't know how to do something now does not mean you can't learn how to do it later.

There is no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.

The appointment of the next Supreme Court justice must be made in the people's interest and in the nation's interest, not in the interest of any partisan faction.

It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.

Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.

I’ve started thinking about pure electronic music again. Something very melodic, very aggressive.

That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.