Everyone looks the same to me in a photograph: stupid.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

Once you label me you negate me.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Kindness can be short, sweet, transient, and random, but its effects echo forever.

Know what you really want. Know why you want it and how you will get it. That's the key!

Mothers should negotiate between nations. Mothers of fighting countries would agree: Stop this killing now. Stop it now.

I embrace my weirdness and the things I maybe didn't used to love about myself. Those are things that make me different.

You know, I'm going to start thanking the woman who cleans the restroom in the building I work in. I'm going to start thinking of her as a human being.

The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.

Love is a fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person.

As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.

Our continent must be allowed to do its own things, charting its course and destiny.

I don't ever look past anyone or think that they're not worthy. Of course they're worthy, they're warriors.