Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can remember.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

We cannot even let the other person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

You might consider how to escape from a cage must surely require, foremost, awareness of the fact of the cage.

Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.

While everybody else was going mad, we were actually the sanest people in the whole thing.

I sing a lot, even with my voice.

Those remarkable, God-given eyes! That glorious, good-natured personality! Elijah's Frodo is a dazzling light in the doom and gloom of war and despair.

People are afraid of everything.

Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.

In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

Which came first - the observer or the particle?

Since he saved me from the attack, I have associated his smell with safety, so as long as I focus on it, I feel safe now.