if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

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.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!

The goal was never dependent on the route that took me there. It was always dependent on the heart that got me through whatever route opened itself up to my efforts.

A familiar pang of dread wrapped its icy hand around my heart." Lorelei Preston-The Wild Hunt

All that a man hath will he give for his life.

In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.

Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.

However many snaps I play for, when I'm on the field I go 120 percent.

We all make mistakes, and it's not until we make mistakes that we learn.

Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.

I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.