When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library

You can see in others what they don't see in themselves and what the world doesn't see in them.

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Indeed we have souls. And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe. That listens to water with a river flowing, or water falling in rain and is lifted up by that and listens to a wonderful singer, wonderful musicians, listens to maybe Duke Ellington or Frank Sinatra or listens to Odetta and Mary J. Blige. Yes, and thinks whoo! And thinks, yes, hmm, all right now. My soul has been washed. I feel better, I feel stronger.

Just because I am wheelchair-bound doesn't mean I don't get around.