I have read somewhere that we often spend a lifetime searching for what we already have.

A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.

Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives.

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.

Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?

And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive.

I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.

The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.

Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair.

The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away.

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will but it didn't work for the rabbit!

Accept life on life's terms and just let things go.

I have surrendered to God; therefore I surrender to nothing else.

With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God.

I know every actor says this, but the people behind the camera are great. They always have answers.

Derek picked the spot? Had he been hoping I'd be blinded by the morning sun and stumble off the edge?

Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.