God knows no distance.

You can't give people pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people look to their inner strengths and find their own sense of pride

I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing, you will never get it.

You don't have to look poor, you don't have to look down; For money is a medium of exchange, and that's all; but it is not a mind regulator unless you allow it to be.

You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very bright, bright women who do not have the stamina for husbands.

I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing you will never get it.

Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fearis an orphaned part of usseeking joy, some disowned shadow wanting to returnto the lightand homeof ourselves.

Emerald slopes became so tall they touched the clouds, and showers painted diamond waterfalls that sluiced down cliff sides.

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.

What an electric thrill it sends up and down the spine, how it sets the heart racing: A Royal Romance! A Royal Wedding! The pomp and the pageantry!

What is Kanye West's message? Like most rap, "I am the greatest person ever and you're not." I used to call it affirmative action for the ego.

Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.

I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.

I'd love to direct commercials on Caribbean beacheswith luscious women rubbing on suntan lotion, but all I get arethese documentary-type things.

Chaos, when left alone, tends to multiply.

I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white.