We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.

- Mary Chapin Carpenter

Carry with you maps and string, flashlights, friends who make you sing, and stars to help you find your place, music, hope, and amazing grace.

- Mary Chapin Carpenter

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

- Mary Chapin Carpenter

In this world, you've a soul for a compass and a heart for a pair of wings.

- Mary Chapin Carpenter

Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should n…

- Mary Chapin Carpenter

Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?

- Mary Chapin Carpenter

God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same.

- Mary Chapin Carpenter

A dreamer born is a hero bred.

- Mary Chapin Carpenter

In this world you've a soul for a compass And a heart for a pair of wings There's a star on the far horizon Rising bright in an azure sky For the…

- Mary Chapin Carpenter