Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.

Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light...And let it breathe.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

Education is the true gift of love that can eradicate the poverty of a nation.

Sanity is transmuting all the insane parts of your brain into a creative outlet.

I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain.

The court's job is to uphold the Constitution and you don't call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have allowed this practice?

To protect one's identity is a Constitutional right.

Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.

We can't worry about competition. Besides, you aren't competing with anyone but yourself. They have nothing to do with whether you make a good movie or not.

If you are looking for your purpose or calling, you will find it in your pain.

I love that experience of seeing a bad movie or a movie that you don't even know, and then experiencing it with your friend.

The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect.