Quotes on I Can

I can think of no greater happiness than to be clear-sighted and know the miracle when it happens. And I can think of no more real life than the adventurous one of living and liking and exclaiming the things of one's own time.

I act because I can't seem to live with myself if I do not. I don't know any other way to be. It isn't something you can explain; it is just something that you do; it is something that you are.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

I make up my mind about whether I can trust someone within 60 seconds of meeting them

I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.

I can honestly say [that writing] is the best life there is, because you get to live within the realm of your own mind, and that is a profoundly rare human privilege.

What kind of husband am I gonna be if I can't even hold my wife's hand? _x000D_ ...but I realized I may not have hands to hold my wife's hand, but when the time comes, I'll be able to hold her heart. I don't need hands to hold her heart.

I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me, if I do that well enough, then I'll be able to look after someone else -- the children or the husband or the elderly. But I have to look after myself first. I know that some people think that's being selfish, I think that's being self-full.

When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity...I can be sure that I am right.

I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chance

The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.

Jet, I can almost remember their funny faces

What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.

Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.

If I can't enjoy the full and total happiness of love, then I want to drain its torments, its tortures to the dregs; then I want the woman I love to mistreat me, betray me, and the more cruelly the better. That too is a pleasure.

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.

As a younger person, my philosophy was jump off a cliff. I realize now that there are stairs and elevators. I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me. I can even ask for help! Not feeling that I have to know everything, and that’s where the growth comes in, in the not knowing.

Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me. Music education and families are dealing with the economic times, and I wanted to help them. If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.

We are one in Christ; let us be friends with one another; but let us never be friends with one another’s error. If I be wrong, rebuke me sternly; I can bear it, and bear it cheerfully; and if ye be wrong, expect the like measure from me, and neither peace nor parley with your mistakes.

There is a future, and I can't wait to get to it