“A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.”

“It seems like women are always in the kitchen around food and they're serving and they're giving and they're enjoying and it's part of the plentitude of life and the enrichment of life.”

“When silence is God's only voice,And waiting on Him my only choice,A banner of faith I humbly raiseAnd offer a sacrifice of praise.Though answers He may not impart,Forever I can trust His heart.”

“I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forever in wonder. The difference between me as a child and me as an adult is this and only this: when I was a child, I longed to travel into, to live in wonder. Now, I know, as much as I can know anything, that to travel into wonder is to be wonder. So it matters little whether I travel by plane, by rowboat, or by book. Or, by dream. I do not see, for there is no I to see. That is what the pirates know. There is only seeing and, in order to go to see, one must be a pirate.”

“There are no negatives in life, only challenges to overcome that will make you stronger.”

“If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.”

“When we can live in peace and harmony with one another, irrespective of race, color, creed....When that day arrives we will be contented. THEN, we all can boast of our DEMOCRACY, and NOT until then.”