We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.

If you were to press your heart close up against somebody else’s heart eventually your hearts will start beating at the same time. And two little babies in an incubator, their hearts will beat at the same time. Love that. So if you have somebody in your life that is prone to anxiety, like myself, and if you happen to be a calm person, you could come up and hug me heart to heart and my heart hopefully would slow to yours. And I just love that idea. Or maybe yours would speed up to mine. But either way, we’ll be there together.

...And for every day you paint the war, take a week and paint the beauty, the color, the shape of the landscape you’re marching towards. Everyone knows what you’re against; show them what you’re for.

Someday we will dare to trade good for true

If you’re handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars.

I know a thousand things louder than a soldier's gun; I know the heartbeat of his mother.

she's wondering how many women are walking around this world feeling the tingling of their amputated wings remembering what it was to fly to sing