In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.

Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light...And let it breathe.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it?

bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.

Après ski is my favorite sport.

Im looking forward to the World Cup because I believe Wayne Rooney could be one of the major finds in world football.

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

It's far better to love impefectly than not to love at all.

If you have done your homework, then the slightest motion from the teacher can cause you to spin into hundreds of different states of mind. That can only happen for the prepared individual.

Cities are the crucible of civilization.

Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.

Opposition doesn't prevent the presence of God, it provides an opportunity to prove the presence of God.