“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”  – Oscar Wilde

“Before we start this first song, I want to say this: and keeping it very real, it came to me in the spirit. What came to me to say to all of you was, that anyone that hates anyone for any reason, whether it be the color of their skin or their relationship to religion or whatever, what you’re doing is blocking your blessing. You’re blocking your family’s blessing, you’re blocking the world’s blessing.”

“I hope that you will put love in your heart.  And if you love God, or Allah, or whatever religion you are, that you will take hate out of it, and the world will be so much greater. I really, really believe that. If you put love in there and took hate out, then the people who are blind will be able to see, the people who are deaf will be able to hear. We will see miracles unfold.” – Stevie Wonder

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds — all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. -Edward Everett Hale

Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.  -Rumi

We have a desire to make something out of the feelings we have. -Matthew Weiner

We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard. -Penelope Lively

Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life. -Giorgos Seferis

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. -Dr. Seuss

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” -Angela Davis

If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. -Toni Morrison