“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.

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.

Nothing will work unless you do.

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

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

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

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

Don’t let the man bring you down.

Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can’t copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company.

A bleeding heart takes longer to catch up with the rationale of a busy mind. – emotions aren’t linear.

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

When she holds me close to her chest – her heart speaks to me.

It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.

Don’t ever hesitate to take to [God] whatever is on your heart. He already knows it anyway, but He doesn’t want you to bear its pain or celebrate its joy alone.

For a woman, language spoken is an expression of what she is feeling. For a man, language spoken is an expression of what he is thinking. A woman says what is on her heart while a man says what is on his mind.

He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.