Someday my children will look fondly on the annoying things I did and see them clearly as evidence of love.

Music is my enchanter, the seducer of my emotions, the fire and ice that moves me.

I survive on moments of make-believe happiness.

Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it.

Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds.

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power.

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.

Dreams become reality once the dreamer goes beyond imagining and acts them out.

I can and will improve the world.I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.I refuse to be unhappy.

Giddy is a grin and giggles and that glint of goofiness in your gaze.

You are a full of beautiful madness, an unreasonable reason, but you make sense in all things senseless.

To understand the new birth is to have a revelation of its mystery

Well, I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade.

There's art that I think is pretty silly, but it doesn't get under my skin like it used to.

People say hello to me. I mean, sometimes the sanitation truck goes by and says, hey Patti.

Patience is not learned in safety.

In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

The yogi will tell you that you feel and look as young as your spine is elastic.

My daughter's wanted to be an actress since she was six years old, but I didn't want her to go through the same experiences as I did as a child actor.

For whatever reason, God has a plan for me.