Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.

I live in an atmosphere of music.

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.

Determine to live life with flair and laughter.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.