I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.

Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light...And let it breathe.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

Run my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings. Run like hell my dear, from anyone likely to put a sharp knife into the sacred, tender vision of your beautiful heart.

You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.

If I could explain a head in a barrel to the King, he thought, I can explain a man in a tanpit to a Bishop. But I'd sooner be more certain of the facts.

It is less difficult to look beyond ... and foretell the future, than to look back and remember what has already gone before.

Least of all shall we preserve democracy or foster its growth if all the power and most of the important decisions rest with an organization far too big for the common man to survey or comprehend.

That's sort of like what real life is like in Hollywood. You need stars to gain financing.

Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?

My mind is living on cloud 9 and this 9 is never on vacation.

We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world!

Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.

All I wanted was to break your walls, all you wanted was to break me