Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind.Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exult

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.

A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.

Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

Don't be afraid of the dark. Shine!

It is a great thing to be able to make God your source and the time of solitude presents you with that opportunity.

And in my novels I live many lives. Substitutes of spontaneity to replace a dreary reality. How I live for those inky black words and kaleidoscope colored experiences.

Satan is hopelessly desperate as Jesus waits patiently.

There is nothing I can do that won’t bring me back to you.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

She [Monica Vitti] was a great actress, but a very difficult person. I am not in contact with her at the moment because she is very sick. Not a generous woman, I have to say. I don't see her much.

Players draw confidence from a poised, alert coach who anticipates changing in game conditions

The next step is to learn to communicate with the people that you feel are causing your pain and misery- not to learn how to prove them wrong and yourself right but how to communicate from the heart.

One of the greatest tasks of my life has been to teach the colored man he can be anything.

See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.