To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

Once you label me you negate me.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

If we don't protect what we have, it will be destroyed.

I'm an athlete who's very determined and I understand sacrifice.

Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.

Today, over half of American workers have less than $10,000 in savings and have no idea how they will be able to retire with any shred of dignity.

Right now I'm happy to be on the ice anywhere, anytime.

I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God.

Justified" is even better than "just as if I'd never sinned." It is also "just as if I'd always obeyed.

I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.

The United States is unique among the rich countries, developed countries, in not having some kind of a national health-care system.

He tries to show each person how much they are capable of achieving.