From '41 to '51I was my folk's contrary son;I bit my father's hand right throughAnd broke my mother's heart in two.
When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.
there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.
We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.
She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.
You tell them - you tell them there's a cost. . . . . Every decision we make in life, there's always a cost.
In this life, y'ever notice that you face the same challenges again and again? We all do. They're challenges to your soul. We repeat them until we face them and master them. Yes we all have free will, but there're divine patterns out there, and the battle is to see them.
Lance Armstrong showed up, and I started talking to him; I saw all these people with cancer who followed him to Paris for the Tour de France, and I saw the difference he was making in their lives. That put it together for me. . . having it be not so much about me, but [my being] a vehicle for it.
Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.
There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.