worms are the words but joy's the voice

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.

We ought to live heaven on earth, clean environment, the beauty of blissful realms.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence race is the principle of physical analogy.

Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.

I can’t stand to hear his [Obama’s] voice anymore. He’s a liar, and worse.

It's hard to have a career.

Am I entitled to one mistake, am I after 35 years?

I'm desperate to have children. I am chomping at the bit. It's a problem. I can't imagine that I will not be a mother.

I think a lot of people can get wrapped up in comparing themselves. And that's when the tragic downfall comes, because there will always be someone more beautiful.

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor.