He wanted me to come home--to come home, as he said, and settle down, and whenever he said that I thought of the sediment at the bottom of a stagnant pond.

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

Music pulls words from the heart and inspires brilliance.

Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.

Losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill.

Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make purchasing decisions.

Michael Flynn not exactly cut from that cloth. Someone who has very strong views about almost everything in the realm of national security and defense.

When you're working with good people it brings good things out in you.

I will have Derek Fisher wear all 5 of his rings the first time he comes in to talk to Carmelo.

If you don't have time for the small things, you won't have time for the big things

To hold a testimony, one must bear it often and live worthy of it.

It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.