Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.

Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it.

I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.

I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no judgment. I think talent is like that. I believe every person is born with talent.