Chosing to stay in the moment, is choosing to be free from fear.

The only time you truly make a mistake is when you commit a "mis-take," that is, you "miss-taking" the opportunity to learn a valuable lesson from your seemingly malfunctional experience.

It is only those who feel disconnected and seperated from the Oneness of All That Is that can ever commit evil deeds.

Intolerance is evidence of fear, and fear is the consequence of feeling powerless.

Where there's compassion, no heirarchy can exist. Where men are allowed to create themselves as equals, evil cannot thrive or survive.

The only way to go beyond your fears is to grow beyond them and that always means challenging, overcoming and learning from them.

We're forever focusing upon our differences, and never noticing how much we're all alike.

Ignorance is jealousy's twin sister.

We never cherish what we've got until the day it's gone.

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.

Over there!" "Where?" Enna asked in mock panic "Do you see something?

If we believe in what God made and what God said, we will believe in the One whom God sent.

I talk a lot about women in my act, 'cause let's face it -- if I was hungry, I would talk about food.

She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.

The magic isn't in getting married, it's in staying married.

The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have.

Yo! You’re my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I’d have asked for it, Motherfucker!

I have always made impresarios a lot of money across my career and have never, so far as I am aware, given any of them heart attacks.

... men as a rule are more preoccupied with the dangers that threaten their life than interested in the biological forces on which they depend for a constructive existence.