I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

Once you label me you negate me.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

There seem to be no way he could stop anything that was happening, although it all felt wrong.

Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money.

The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

You hate Jesus because someone from the North Country said He was the Son of God. But you hate one another because each of you deems himself too great to be the brother of the next man.

We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very shocked to learn that wasn't the case.

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?

Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful.

The character requires so many elements. The only one who could fulfill that was this one person: Elle Fanning.

The practice of 'asanas' and 'pranayama' wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.