You don't need an invitation to your own life.

Don't think or judge, just listen.

Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of my success.

One of my favorite stories was Black Orchid, because it was so different from all the others. I especially enjoyed dancing the Charleston. I have always been keen on dancing.

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.

I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

I want to figure out how people can go on with their lives when mine has changed so much. I want to relearn how to breathe without carrying this big, empty cave inside me.

Never take advice from a donkey.

And this is where I'll end, before I know what happens next.

I like to spend as much time with my friends and family as possible.

I got plenty. You can have all my light, my shine. I got plenty. All my boys here, we working being creative.

Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not.

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

I didn’t know what I was going to say, a feeling that was compounded when the line clicked open and Trent’s very muzzy voice murmured, “Rachel? Mmm, hi.

I look at Canada like a second home.