People are murdering each other without any recourse... So we need to get in our communities and work from the inside out.

We meditate so we can see miracles unfolding. Without stillness life is a blur.

Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren't real. They're just God's way of testing you. He's asking you, 'Do you want to make it or not?'

When you give without reservation, you’ll become a magnet that pulls the world toward you.

Embrace struggle... It is your greatest teacher.

Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.

When you do good by the world, the world will do good by you

Decide that no matter what is happening around you, the sun will always be shining in your world.

Whatever you chase will run away from you. So, stop chasing success and realize you already have it all.

Don't ruin a good today by thinking of a bad yesterday, Let it go!

You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.

In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the Messiah’s history written in advance in story form.

I only come here seeking knowledge

Talent works, genius creates.

I think the pearls - one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl - really show a kind of [society] condition.

Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.

Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.

I'm like the trunk of a cactus... I take in a dose of culture and time with friends, then I retreat and go live on it for awhile until I get thirsty again.

Our sexual self is a complex combination of our social, cultural, and biological inheritance.

I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by somebody physically defeating him.