The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.

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.

To be perfectly honest with you, I think it's reckless to love and trust another person. It's clearly foolhardy.I'd like it very much if the many daredevils who go ahead anyway, enjoyed this book.

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

I am art. I am authentic. I am love. I am me.

If God rewards the faithful with earthly rewards, then what leverage does the devil have?

Some players need a boot up their backside. Other players need the arm

I have no nerves, no emotion, no pressure.

Compassion is a two way street.

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

Trends don't mean very much to me. They come, they go, they turn around.

You never know what's going on in somebody's mind. There's a lot of pressure on someone growing up. You have to watch it.