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

Have enough courage to love.

To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.

You can ask goodness in, show it how much you like it, make room for it. And it says, "Oh, I like this place, I think I'll stay here." Which is why people go into one house and say, "I want to take my shoes off." At another house, no matter how beautiful it is, they might say, "Hmm, I can't stay."

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

I'm convinced that I'm a child of God. That's wonderful, exhilarating, liberating, full of promise. But the burden which goes along with that is, I'm convinced that everybody is a child of God. . . . I weep a lot. I thank God I laugh a lot, too. The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness.