Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.

There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?'

Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.

It cannot be denied that too often the weight of the Christian movement has been on the side of the strong and the powerful and against the weak and oppressed-this, despite the gospel.

Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature.

Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.

Jesus rejected hatred because he saw that hatred meant death to the mind, death to the spirit, and death to communion with his Father. He affirmed life; and hatred was the great denial.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

In whatever sense this year is a new year for you, may the moment find you eager and unafraid, ready to take it by the hand with joy and gratitude.

This existence is just imagination. It is nothing in reality, but there is no non-being for natures that know how to distinguish being from non being.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.

The best model of a cat is another cat..., specially the same cat.

Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.

My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.

All companies would be better off if they stopped trying to be amazing and just focused on being useful.

One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.

When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.