One of the nicest things about telling the truth is that you don't have to remember what you said.
I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend, that together we succeed in building a better world through human understanding and love, and that in doing so we may reduce the pain and suffering of all sentient beings.
Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
Everyone has a song in their heart. Everyone has a reason for being here and a season for making their highest, greatest most auspicious contribution. No one knows what that is or when that is for anyone else. Only our own heart knows what and when it is for us. Your heart wants to sing. Don’t die with your music still within you. There is a reason for everything and a purpose to your life. Too many fail to listen to the song in their heart and therefore fail to find their purpose and their part. What makes your soul sing and your heart dance? Actually your heart is your soul and you are both! Ask this one question of yourself but don’t be in a hurry to answer it. Live in the question for a day, a week, a month. Let it invite your heart to speak to you. And when you are absolutely sure what your heart is saying is true then begin to invoke the changes necessary in your life so that you live in alignment with your song. Be patient with this.
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
My mother groan'd, my father wept Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping load, Like a friend hid in a cloud.
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions. And that's what we have to change first. We have to change our politics, and come together around our common interests and concerns as Americans.
