Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.

A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he calls home, and do what he can to change things there.

But sometimes it's necessary to go back before you can go forward, really forward.

Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

I question whether I want to be integrated into America as it stands now, with its complacency and materialism, its soullessness.

Once a great wrong has been done, it never dies. People speak the words of peace, but their hearts do not forgive. Generations perform ceremonies of reconciliation but there is no end.

A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.

I'll have to as you say take a stand do something toward shaking up that system. ... Despair ... is too easy an out.

Sometimes a person has to go back really back-to have a sense an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

Forcing yourself into peace is indeed stressful so do not stress yourself to run behind peace, Go through each n every stress with peace.

Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.

Some people record onto tape, and then they pay for the tape, and download those onto a hard drive. Initially in a Pro Tools program. Other people go straight into digital, and use no tape at all.

Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.

Perpetual peace is a futile dream.

You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!

When you find a fear, that fear will either create you or destroy you.

"Angelophany" is the visible or otherwise tangible manifestation of angels to human beings. Abraham Lincoln frequently mentioned that he was visited by angels at the White House.

I definitely need to use my chances when they come because definitely there wont be many.

You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go.