Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

Once you label me you negate me.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

You are either in a state of perfection or a state of learning. Reading is one of the best ways to learn about our lives and purpose!

It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.

Men prefer sweet lies to unpleasant truths

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

But death we are, and death we've always been.

To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.

It was weird because I'd only been in L.A. for about six months and I had my first feature.

Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.

Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.