Having courage does not mean we are unafraid.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.
I get up in the morning, and I'm reluctant to turn on the television.
A joyful spirit is evidence of a grateful heart.
I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.
No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots.