Even the darkest and stormiest sky will give way to a bright and beautiful sun.

Forgiveness is not about letting anybody 'off the hook.' Forgiveness actually has nothing to do with the person you are forgiving. It does, however, have everything to do with you.

The very essence of your true self is the ability to recognize what you think is not always what you may feel.The heart is the slave~bns

Make me a shadow on the wall!

If you can't trust your coke dealer, who can you trust?

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

Seventy-two virgins - does that make sense to anyone? And it's an ancient religion, maybe it was misinterpreted? Maybe it's not 72 virgins, maybe it's a 7-foot-2 Persian.

Colombia is a different country today. The state is now present in every single corner, the drug lords are in jail or dead. So we have the means to guarantee the security of FARC politicians.

She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief.

When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.

You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change.