How much more comfortable it is to say 'Yes, and...' than 'Yes, but...'.

Years ago I heard the Indian Jesuit Raimundo Panikkar say: Expect Nothing.

I'm afraid my glass is no longer half full because I drank most of it.

To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance.

We all have the right to be wrong and be loved just the same.

Ideals are great as long as they don't get in the way of what we want to do.

Until we can sense a sacred quality in time we will not begin to have a fuller understanding of it.

I feel that the only true security I have is my capacity, however limited, to love.

I think that an act of love is immortal; once tendered, it can never really be taken back.

If there were no nobodies, The somebodies would not have anybody, To convince that they were somebody, Except some other somebody, Who would not be convinced anyway.

Before I can accept someone's help, I must accept their presence.

All have dreams, live for them, They add meaning to LIFE.The only thing that differentiates us from other beings is the fact that us can DREAM!!!

Solitude helps you to convert your time into clarity of purpose.

Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination.

The thing I noticed is that a lot of times great material can get ruined if its not in the right hands.

As a rule, only the poor are generous.

You can say the nastiest things about yourself without offending anyone.

If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.

Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel.

Ya think that the whiskey tastes good? Try a big cup of sobriety - now that is the good stuff!