[Positive mental attitude] is a practice, you gotta practice. I practice being still.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

No religion, I'm just so explicit, I coexist in places you would never know existed.

I'm just a demon that means well. Freelance for God, but do the work of Satan.

I say 'cuz' around Bloods, and I say 'blood' around Crips...I'm twisted. Got Mary, got Lucy, got Molly: that's wifey, girlfriend and mistress.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

The universe bends to a still mind, peace be still.

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.

The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

Take a break to listen to the song of the wind, talk to the whispering trees, feel the love of flowers, dance with the dancing leaves, and enjoy the tranquility and serenity of nature.

The symbology of the sphinx… is to remind mankind for eternity that he is nothing more than an animal with a brain.

We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.

Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow.

Smile, breathe, and go slowly. Thich Nhat Hanh Don't try to steer the river.

[Gilda Radner] died in '89, and I got non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2000. I've just passed the five-year mark and I'm now what you call - well, it's called complete remission, but I'm cured. I'm fine.

I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.

Faith in Jesus Christ is a gift from heaven that comes as we choose to believe and as we seek it and hold on to it.

She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.

Never doubt God's desire or ability to help you.