Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions.

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

Sincere love is something that sacrifices not something that indulges itself. Sincere love is responsible. It would never knowingly hurt, but would heal.

May we never let the things we can't have or don't have or shouldn't have spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.

A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.

This is life-and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

Your direction is more important than your speed.

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.

One of the greatest accomplishments in this world would be that of lifting human hearts. Blessed are they who are kind and considerate of the feelings of other people.

What is it that makes us suppose that we can more easily do twice tomorrow what we didn't do once today!

Every word on every page, represents a love that captured this heart... fully, and never set it free.

We are musical notes emanating from the quantum string section of a grand symphonic orchestra.

I like my thingshurried and haunted. Night teadarktime. Sacred geometry, secret geometrypetal-flame whisper: I am here, and you aren't.

For me the road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years.

If your own mind is muddled, much more will the minds of your hearers be confused.

I've always wanted to work with Hugh [Grant] because I loved his movies.

It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love. In His strength, I will dare and dare and dare until I die.

Everyday you wake up on the right side of the dirt is a good one.

I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause that's just like part of my DNA.

But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.