I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.

There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful.

The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.