Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional —the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.

Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too.

Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world gone mad without him.

When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.

In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.

They want explanation, not faith; God gives them faith as the explanation.

The more we train a man to labor, deliberate, dictate and demand over the inconsequential, the less capable his mind becomes of holding that of consequence.

Joy is that paradox where a man so trusts, is so enraptured, as to be caught up and lost in the other, while at the same time, being utterly known by the other, thus utterly himself.

In Joy, to lose one’s life is to gain it, and Joy never loses an opportunity to be lost in the other.

They think that if they had more belief they would pray more, so keep them lacking. Never let them realize that the opposite is true: If they prayed more, they would have more belief.

Somehow they fail to see that for someone aggravated by depression, self-help will be useless, indeed, it is precisely the self that needs to be forgotten.

I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.

There is huge merit in both Eastern and Western medicine, and I've taken a little bit from both.

People who have not tried, know so much about gardening! - and so little.

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

It is one of the peculiar truths of life that people often say things that they know full well are ridiculous.

That's all I did - that's all I ever did - try to do what Billy Strayhorn did.

Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.

My operating assumption is we will always have very tough competition. And even with some European banks struggling right now, some of them can reemerge - and maybe even stronger.

None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings.

I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.