I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

Crazy players love me. I don’t know why.

My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it’s light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

Sisters, do you realize the breadth and scope of your influence when you speak those things that come to your heart and mind as directed by the Spirit?

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

You know, watching Dan Marino and Steve Young get nominated to the Hall of Fame… those guys are unbelievable and they did it for so long. I’d love to play like those guys, but there’s still a long way to go and a lot of growing.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

I’m telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

My sisters are stronger and my brother’s bigger than me.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‚I’d like to write about that.‘ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Hope is a waking dream.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

All you need is love.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.