Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")

I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.

In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons. The epitome of sophistication is utter simplicity.

I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself.

...one can never leave home...one carries the shadows, the dreams, the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes...

Never cut down a tree whose shade you might need tomorrow.

You can't measure time in days the way you can money in dollars because each day is different.

The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century.

I don't need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.

God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best.

Perception is a tool that's pointed on both ends.

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

The way from God to a human heart is through a human heart.

You can be whoever you want to be, you just have to want it bad enough.