I really do believe in the New Jerusalem. I really do believe that we can all become better than we are. I know we can. But the price is enormous and people are not yet willing to pay it.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.

grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps.

Sometimes we just need to be heard… There are times in life when being heard leads to being healed.

Today’s life is tomorrow’s career and yesterday’s history, live it well.

Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.

I think I always just want to get better at whatever Im doing... Always strive for excellence.

I'm confident that I can steal rounds by getting inside and throwing punches.

I like so many different genres of music that I guess it would be hard for me to pick one person who inspires me when so many people inspire me to make good music.

Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic.