Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

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

The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story.

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

Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.