Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.

We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate - thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.

Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops.

I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.