"The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation."

"Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor."

"Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand."

"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands."

"Live simply that others might simply live."

"He who does not hope to win has already lost."

"Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it isn't. Failure is part of what makes us human."

"Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all."

"Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it."

"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance."

"You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents."

"I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married."