Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you don't have a foundation, the roof isn't going to stand.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

You are the universe experiencing itself.

We see what we believe rather than what we see.

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Don't base reality on what you have seen when you have seen very little.

Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.

Mercy will we overcome thisOh one by one could we turn it aroundMaybe carry on just a little bit longerAnd I try to give you what you need

Sometimes GOD places walls NOT to hold us back, but to test our determination

The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.

I believe that there is a future in anything that one is vitally interested in.

Wake up: all of that 'crack in the street' talk? It's made up, like 'Jack and the Beanstalk.'

But I think there is a widespread opinion that the support system for athletes should be more firmly established.

The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to come to terms with the lives and thoughts of strangers.

Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.