I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

If you have a light, meet the world or let the world meets you!

I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.

Desiree. It's like falling in love every night and having your heart broken every morning... Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past.

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.

Zimbabweans are so smart and witty and able to weave together tons of situations and experiences into terminologies that are just utterly original.

When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its beyond belief.

That's sort of the idea that if we, in attempting to explain away that which is experienced, the experience itself is diminished.

If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.

How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.