Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

keep the relationship with your God private, special & unique... then ignore all the filters other Christians use to look at you...

Right at the flamingo orgy! Left at the multiethnic roof Santas! Straight past the pissing cherubs!

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.

Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows.

As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.

Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.

You are your own Promised Land, your own new frontier.

The first spiritual quality we need to have is not faith; it is courage.

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.