A good listener is a witness, not a judge of your experience.

Time is the material from which life is made

If you're going to have the tortured soul of an artist, then you might as well create some art while you're at it.

Thus, every entity, even if it is a defective one, in so far as it is an entity, is good. In so far as it is defective, it is evil.

Speaking from my own religious tradition in this Christmas season, 2,000 years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child in a manger because the inn was full.

If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself

Whatever can't be expressed might as well not exist.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent or to examine himself so as to discover his own sins.

Compassion and love, that's all.

The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to hope.