All of history has pointed its refining focus to your life this moment.

You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.

Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.

Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix.

Your health is a long-range investment that will pay-off when you need it most.

If you are really humble you will put yourself first when you need to take care of you.

By choosing positivity you become a contender for the human spirit giving hope to those in need.

Music becomes flesh and thrives in a new world, a new man . . .He, the last-born, son of music and love, shall arise in triumph over an ample land, prophet of a soul yet more ample . . .

The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.

That was the river, this is the sea.

You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.

A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

If you're into social justice it's hard not to be on black people's side.

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

I don't feel that I decided deliberately I'm going to write something and have it stand alone. Somewhere by the end I think it would probably revert to imagery.

Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.