Pure suffering has a consciousness, a tongue, a heart all its own and even the memory of it is but a pale unreality when compared with the actual experience.

To keep a vow, means not to keep from breaking it, but rather to devote the rest of one's life to discovering what the vow means, and to be willing to change and to grow accordingly.

We like to talk about having the faith to be healed - what about the faith to be sick?.

How tragic that the very thing that could set us free-playing the fool-is the thing we will not do. When we're afraid to be fools, we end up being afraid to be anything.

It is easier to diminish God than it is to enlarge one's heart.

True worship has less to do with offering sacrifices than with being a sacrifice ourselves.

Love is an earthquake that relocates the center of the universe.

And as Dad said to me, 'You can't always stop people from being mean. But you can stop them from making you mean.

However let's turn the coin, what if we choose not to broadcast the bad news but choose to broadcast mostly good news? How would this affect our life?

Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good.

Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth.

I wake up every morning literally with a smile on my face, grateful for another day I never thought I'd see.

Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.

No matter what I do now, there are certain doors I have already closed, certain opportunities I'll never get back. There's nothing to be done, I guess. It is what it is.

I love cell phones. I see people so happy and proud, walking around. Gesturing, you know. I'm like Karl Marx, I'm up for anything that makes people happy.

That which holds our attention determines our action.

Take away the In God We Trust, tell me what the hell is wrong with us.

My dear fellow, my whole life is moved by the principle that the one thing which is more important than peace is music. It is because I believe that I am poor.