There are so many ways of saying Hi. Hiss it, trill it, bark it, sing it, bellow it, laugh it, cough it. A simple stroll in the hallway calls for paragraphs, sentences in your head, decisions galore.

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.

I say, Billy, what’s the use in playing croquet when you’re doomed? He says, Frankie, what’s the use of not playing croquet when you’re doomed?

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

After a full belly all is poetry.

It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen

A mother's love is a blessing No matter where you roam. Keep her while you have her, You'll miss her when she's gone -- Angela's Ashes.

The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.

I teach not by feeding the mind with data but by kindling the mind.

It is through love that the door to Heaven is opened on earth.

The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown...The trees in apple orchardsWith fruit are bending down.

Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don't think I was ready to do a big production like this.

You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside.

I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is

Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.

The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.

For me going out to party never meant drinking or taking drugs.

Everything that I've gone through informs me and my opinions in a way, I guess because I am a child of segregation. I lived through it. I lived in it. I was of it.