God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

Soul, if you want to learn secrets, 
your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover, 
yet you worry what people are saying.

Be empty of worrying.Think of who created thought!Why do you stay in prisonWhen the door is so wide open?

Be melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself.

You have forgotten the Onewho doesn't care about ownership, who doesn't try to turn a profitfrom every human exchange.

There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.I don't plan it.When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

You are so weak. Give up to grace.The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore.You need more help than you know.

I try to be rational and suppress the hope that this is for real, but hope has a way of closing its eyes to reason and it just keeps growing.

Words that should cross your lips with ease: thank you, love you, sorry, please.

The only keeper of your happiness is you. Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your worth and your attitude.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.

Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art

I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the interim.

Religious freedom in an open society has the best prospects of flourishing to the extent that it expresses itself as freedom of religious inquiry.

When I go out to eat, it's usually something moderate in style.