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.” 

“Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of ‘touching’ a man’s heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it

“He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative.” 

“And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads.”

I was born to love you with every single beat of my heart. I was born to take care of you every single day of my life.

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

When I read the script [of Glee], the whole premise was that all the high school kids were being cruel to this kid in the wheelchair, and then the quarterback comes along and has a heart of gold and takes him out of a Porta Potty. That's too often what I see in media, that the characters with disabilities are there to make other people seem like heroes for treating the character with a disability with respect. Those are the kinds of roles that are out there.

Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.

“Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.”