It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

Once you label me you negate me.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

There's a lady up in heaven who must be very proud of the way the people in Baltimore have treated her boy from the Bronx.

I feel like you only need one moment of inspiration to turn your life around.

If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications.

The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders - people who not only have enormous amounts of energy, but who can energize those whom they lead.

Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.

Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.

There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.

I like to be around things that I find inspiring.

I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.

And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?