"First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love."

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."

"Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time."

"I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."

"I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness."

"I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people."

"That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home."

"It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable."

"Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution."

"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."

"Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well."

"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."

"The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom."

"Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for."

"I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute."

"Nothing will work unless you do."

"All great achievements require time."

"A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing.She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself"

"I sustain myself with the love of family."

"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him."

"Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman."

"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise."