Forgiveness doesn’t make one person better, or the other guy smaller. Forgiving is just letting go. It’s turning back toward being what we really are.

Life is about trying to find our ways back to our one shared soul. When we’re looking out at the stars, we’re looking into ourselves.

I wanted to protect my professorial dignity and not lay myself open to laughter from the Americans, who when they do laugh, laugh raucously

I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.

We should remember that none of us is perfect and none of us has children whose behavior is entirely in accord with exactly what we would have them do in all circumstances.

Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.

We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.

Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.

Your attitude determines your altitude. It really is true that If you think you can, you can; and if you think you can’t – you’re right.

Life is a gift of God, of the God of Coincidence!

I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.

If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.