All the good of nature is the soul’s, and may be had, if paid for in nature’s lawful coin, that is, by labor which the heart and the head allow.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace.

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.” 

“Hearts are made to be broken.” 

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Look at my life. I'm floating like mercury around the earth. My footprints shine with stardust. All because I love you. All because you love me.

Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.

I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no judgment. I think talent is like that. I believe every person is born with talent.

Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.

I think when we don't know what to do it's wise to do nothing. Sit down quietly; quiet our hearts and minds and breathe deeply.

If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Beware what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours. 

“She acquired a lifetime aversion to the phrases bless your heart and poor dears.” 

“In fact, caucus, a word derived from the Algonquin languages, better reflected the layers of talking circles and the goal of consensus that were at the heart of governance.” 

“O WORLD, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise,. And on the inward vision close the eyes,. But it is wisdom to believe the heart.”

“Wisdom lies in voluntary finitude and a timely change of heart: until maturity, multiplying the inclusions, up to the limit of natural faculty and moral harmony; afterwards, gladly relinquishing zone after zone of vegetation, and letting the snow-peak of integrity rise to what height it may.”

“The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look, instead of by our heads and hearts.” 

“She acquired a lifetime aversion to the phrases bless your heart and poor dears.” 

“The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories—in short, out of our heads and into our hearts.”