Look, you're either loved or hated. Which is a good thing, as Bette Davis used to say.
'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will. ' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
Ill always be an amateur photographer.
You have a teacher talking about his gayness. (The elementary school student) goes home then and says "Mom! What's gayness? We had a teacher talking about this today. " The mother says "Well, that's when a man likes other men, and they don't like girls. " The boy's eight. He's thinking, "Hmm. I don't like girls. I like boys. Maybe I'm gay. " And you think, "Oh, that's, that's way out there. The kid isn't gonna think that. " Are you kidding? That happens all the time. You don't think that this is intentional, the message that's being given to these kids? That's child abuse.
Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.
Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.