“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”

“If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.”

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”

“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”

“You should never make someone a priority who views you as an option.”

“When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.”

“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.”