Distracted from distraction by distraction

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

The journey, Not the destination matters.

Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention.

A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.

I think that one of the biggest flaws ofmankind is that we become complacent with our lives.

You have to wipe yourself down, to stay clean. If ya' girl clean, and ya' thoughts clean, wipe 'em down. Wipe 'em down man.

A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.

The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love.

Happiness and work rose up together with the sun, radiant like it.

I have the coolest parents.

Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder.

One day I was asked to pick up $50,000 worth of gold chains for Mr. T. For real!