If you are courageous, listen to the heart. If you are a coward, listen to the head.

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.

If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you together. And if

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds

The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.

Not to be rich, not to be famous, not to be mighty, not even to be happy, but to be civilized--that was the dream of his life.

We are past the end of things now, but I don't want to leave.

The medal is not for yourself. It couldn't be done without the support and help of my people, runners, and coaches

Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.

All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.

I like being challenged. That's the only way you grow.

Because God loves us, he gives us practical teaching and boundaries to protect our hearts. The whole thing is one big expression of a father's love for his children.

I'm not being condescending, I'm too busy thinking about far more important things you wouldn't understand.

I have cooked turkeys in my day but when Mom's around I let her do it.

My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.