The question and the cry 'Oh, where?' melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance 'I am!'

We live in the world when we love it.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

The more happiness you put out into the world, the more will find its way back to you. If I can make one person’s day better because of my actions, it’s been a good day for everyone

You can lie to yourself about all kinds of things. Until you can't, anymore. Until reality pounds a hole through your fantasy castle and the reality check must be cashed in.

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

My job is to find the stories, find where to go, do the research, do the logistics, be there on location, and do as much as possible to get the footage that we need to make an incredible film.

If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.

There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness.

As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.

African-Americans are being disproportionately affected by, you know, the kind of misuse and abuse of power.

I've never had a problem with the old truism about dancing to architecture. I think you can dance to architecture. There's some pretty funky architecture to dance to.

Principally, and first of all, I resign my soul to the Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to the dust, relying on the merits of Jesus Christ for the pardon of my sins.