Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.

When you see Happiness as a far sighted vision or goal, you miss the happiness within!

Even when I press against him his presence is too far away.

I remember hearing in first grade, 'Oh, why does she get to skip school?' It wasn't like I suddenly started feeling different. I always knew that I was. I never felt I missed out.

We're now on the precipice of having a potentially much better economy, but the last thing we need to do is to go back to the policies that failed us in the first place.

We ought to be people of compassion. And being people of compassion means we deny ourselves, and our self centeredness.

The essence of practice is always the same: instead of falling prey to a chain reaction of revenge or self-hatred, we gradually learn to catch the emotional reaction and drop the story lines.

Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.

I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.

In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good.