Quotes on I Can

Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

Always leave people with a solution; the heaven if you do versus the hell if you don't. If you're really skillful you can put the person into the future solution. Shoaff used to say, 'Jim, I can see you now in your new clothes, in your new home, in your new car. I can see others walking up to you.' The Promise of the Future is an Awesome Force!

What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!

At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.

I go out and do the best I can in each game, and I don't think about the fouls other players will commit or whether I might be injured. It only does you harm to worry about those things.

Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

I can not imagine my life if I didn't have a music program in my school.

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

'And how, who am I? I will remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!' But being determined didn't help much.

I trust that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't have such faith in me.

Don't say, "If I could, I would." Say, "If I can, I will."

While I'm dreaming, Wake up screaming, Cuz I can hear them suckas scheming.

If I can have any impact, I want women to feel good about themselves and have fun with fashion

A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another?

I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.

One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.

I write books to change the world. Perhaps I can only change one little piece of that world. But if I can empower teachers and good citizens to give these children, who are the poorest of the poor, the same opportunity we give our own kids, then I'll feel my life has been worth it.